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This little book is sent forth on its mission among men, by 
the author, with the firm conviction that it is a necessity — as 
"Modern Spiritualism," with all its soul -inspiring truths, has 
to suffer so much misrepresentation at the hands of those who 
know nothing of the sublime teachings of this heaven-horn 
philosophy — to educate the people from a Bible standpoint. 

No doubt a great many, even among the thoughtful, will be 
surprised at the statement that the intervention of angels in 
human affairs is a very conspicuous element in the sacred books, 
and that hardly a great event is recorded there, in which they 
have not been prominent actors. As the question has been so 
often asked, "What saith the Scriptures in regard to spiritual- 
ism," the author has gone to considerable trouble in order to 
answer the above question, or rather, to put facts in such shape 
lat the Scriptures may answer for themselves, and this, I think, 
nas been so well done, that the reader must see, at least, the 
wonderful affinity between Bible spiritualism and that which is 
known as "Modern Spiritualism." 

This little book is also intended to teach that a materializing 
seance does not contain all there is in spiritualism, as some 
would-be exposers would have the public believe, and indeed, 
judging from the utterences of some of our religious leaders, 
we are forced to the conclusion that they, too, entertain the 
same crude idea. Then there are others who — strange to say, 
have never investigated in order to find out what spiritualism 
really is — very readily admit the facts, but they attribute all to 
his "Satanic Majesty." If such can lay aside their prejudice 
and give this book an impartial reading, carefully comparing 
the Scriptures therein referred to, I think they would come to 
the conclusion that spiritualism must be a mighty uncomfortable 
place for such a notable personage. As the reader peruses the 
pages of this book he will find that the greatest men of the 
present day are avowed Spiritualists, and all over the world 
millions are rejoicing in the benign influences of "Modern 
Spiritualism." They believe in the continued love and helpful- 
ness of the departed; they have certainly revived the ancient 
faith, and boldly assert what every personage of the New, and 
every prophet of the Old Testament would assert, that heaven 
is within speaking distance, and that the constant companion- 
ship of angels is one of the inalienable rights of aspiring souls. 

If Christians had thoroughly believed the Bible and accepted 



its revelations in this regard, it may be that "Modern Spiritual- 
ism" would never have been born. Now it must be stated that 
the author lays no claim to any phase of mediumship; he is but 
an humble student of the truth, and as this little book is sent 
out in the interest of the truth, free from all spirit of contro- 
versy, he has no fears as to the ultimate results, whatever may 
be the opinion of bigots who are wdse in . their own conceit of 
the subject of which this book treats. And I am sure that no 
fair-minded, no philosophic thinker, will dream of treating it 
with derision or contempt. 

JOHN FORTUNE, 




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IS Spiritualism true ? is a question that at the present time, as 
never before, is agitating the minds of the masses (There 
being about ten million adherents in the U. S. ) and, as 
Spiritualism finds its worst opposition in those who are, or 
at least claim to be believers in the Bible, this little book is sent 
forth in the hope that it may give a satisfactory answer to the 
above question from a Bible standpoint. Webster defines 
Spiritualism as "A belief in the frequent communication of 
intelligences from the world of spirits by means of physical 
phenomena, commonly manifested through persons of special 
susceptibility, called mediums." Before proceeding further we 
wish to settle a question that is often asked by our "orthodox 
friends," that is, is there no distinction between an angel and a 
spirit? To make it appear that the Bible ignores spirit return, 
the Church draws a line of distinction between the two. Psalms 
104:4 reads : "Who maketh his angels spirits, his ministers a 
flaming fire. ' ' The angel that John saw on the Isle of Patmos 
was the spirit of one of the prophets, "And I, John, saw these 
things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I 
fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed 
me these things : Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not 
for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren, the prophets. ' ' 
=»— a human spirit.— Rev. 22:8:9. Angels are ministering spirits. 
"But unto which of the angels saith he at any time, Sit on my 
right hand, until I make thine enemies thy foot stool? Are 
they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those 
who shall be heirs of salvation" — Heb. 1:13:14. In Gen. 3:8, a 
being called "the Lord God." Klohim walks through the 
garden, and talks with Adam and Kve. In Verses 21 to 24 this 
same being makes clothing out of skins for them, and drives 
them from the garden. Gen. 12:1 to 7 — the Lord speaks unto 
Abraham, also appears unto him. Acts 7:2:6 says: "The Lord 



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of glory appeared unto our father Abraham and called him out 
to sojourn in a strange land." In Gen. 17:1, This same spirit 
(God is a spirit | appeared to Abraham again and said: "I am 
Almighty God." He afterwards spoke unto Moses, and told 
him he had appeared unto Abraham as "Almighty God," but his 
real name, which he kept from Abraham, was Jehovah. — Exod. 
6:2:3. Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of 
Israel — 74 persons — saw God. — Exod. 24:9 to II. We ask our 
orthodox friends, do you believe these persons ever saw, and 
talked with God ? The answer comes, yes, I believe it because 
the Bible says so. We now ask our friend to turn to John 1:18 
which reads : "No man hath seen God at any time." I John 4: 
1 2 reads the same, ' 'No man hath seen God at any time. ' ' I Tim , 
6:16 reads : ''Whom no man hath seen, nor can see." John 5: 
37 reads: "Ye have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen 
his shape." I Tim. 1:17 and Col. 1:15 declares that God is invis- 
ible. Exod. 33:20, God tells Moses "No man shall see me and 
live." 

We again ask our friend, do you believe the statement that 
"No man hath seen God at any time?" and he will answer us 
by saying that we are an infidel, or sceptic, and the pulpit will 
hurl its anathemas at us for daring to question "God's Holy 
Word." Since but one of these statements can be true, I choose 
to believe the latter; our orthodox friends may believe both. 

The Bible says : "Come now let us reason together." I want 
to say, I cannot believe that God was ever seen by any mortal, 
not so much because the Bible says so, but because I can only 
conceive of God as being omnipresent, and as such he can only 
be seen as he is revealed to us in His works. In Abraham's 
time, any spirit that communicated or gave any manifestations, 
whether they were one or more, were called "The Lord." In 
Genesis, 18th chapter, "the Lord" appears to Abraham. He is 
called "the Lord" eight times ; "my Lord" once; "three men" 
once; and "the men" once. The manifestations were wonderful. 
The first Abraham knew the Lord appeared unto him. He looked 
up "and lo ! three men stood by him." He did not see them 
come to him, they appeared, as Moses and Elias appeared to 
Jesus, and as Jesus "appeared to two of them as they walked, 
and went into the country." They were materializations that 
could be handled, and they had their feet washed. — Verse 4. 

They also ate "a square meal," consisting of bread, veal, 
cake, butter, and milk. — Verses 6 to 8. It is absurd to sup- 
pose that a .spirit could partake of such coarse material food, 
or have their feet washed, but there is nothing mysterious about 
it, if we admit they were clothed in material bodies. After 



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they had their dinner, they revealed to Abram the impending 
doom of Sodom. Verses 20 and 21 read : ' "And the Lord said, 
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because 
their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether 
they have done altogether according to the cry of it, and if not, 
I will know." Gen. 11:5 reads: "And the Lord came down 
to see the city and the tower, which the children of men 
builded. ' ' Candidly now, do you think this could be said of an 
omnipresent, omniscient God? I cannot think so. Gen. 19:1 
says that two angels came to Abraham's brother Lot in Sodom. 

These two persons are called angels twice, Verses 1 and 15; 
they are called men six times, Verses 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 16; they 
are "sent of the Lord" three times, Verses 13, 14 and 16; and 
they are called "my Lord" once, Verse 18. These also partook 
of material food, Verse 3. Gen. 32:24 to 32, Jacob wrestles with 
one of these heavenly visitants. Verse 24 says it was a man. 
In Verse 30 Jacob concludes that he has really had a tussle with 
God himself. "And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, 
for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." In 
Exodus 3:2 to 6, the angel of the Lord appears to Moses "in 
the burning bush." This spirit, in Verse 2, is called "the angel 
of the Lord." In Verse 4, both Lord and God. Verse 6 says : 
Moses was afraid to look upon God. In Judges, 13th Chapter, 3 
to 22, a spirit being appeared first to the wife of Manoah, the 
Danite, and then to Manoah. This appearance is called an 
angel of the Lord 9 times, in Verses 3, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 21; 
an angel once, Verse 19; a man 3 times, Verse 10 and 11; a man 
of God twice, Verses 6 to 8; Angel of God once, Verse 9. 

And finally Manoah believes it to have been God himself, for 
in Verse 22, "Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, 
because we have seen God." In the 28th chapter of I Samuel, 
13th verse, the spirit of Samuel comes to Saul through the 
woman of En-dor. In answer to Saul's words : "Be not afraid 
for what sawest thou?" the woman said unto Saul, "I saw gods 
ascending out of the earth, ' ' I have tried thus far to show how 
these heavenly visitants were taken for, or else were called 
gods. Had I lived in Abraham's time, no doubt, I too, would 
have taken these heavenly visitants for gods, if I know as little 
of spirit return as he did. Aaron was one of the 74 persons 
who saw God, (Exodus 24:9 to 11), and yet but a little time 
after we find him making a golden calf for he and the people 
to worship — Exodus 32:1 to 5. Had I really seen God, as Aaron 
is said to have seen him, I hardly think that I would have 
wandered away from Him so quick and worshipped a god of gold 
which my own hand had fashioned, but the circumstance only 



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shows how common a thing it was for these so-called gods to 
appear unto men. That these influences called the Lord are 
not always the same individuality is proved by comparing II 
Sam. 24:1 with I Chron. 21:1. Both texts teach that David was 
moved by a spirit influence, but while the former says it was the 
Lord moved David to number Israel, the latter leaves the Lord 
out, and says that it was Satan that provoked David to number 
Israel. It is evident that the Lords and Satans of Old Testa- 
ment times were simply spirits, nothing more, nor nothing less. 
"No man hath seen God at any time (I John 4:12 and John 1:18). 
Who then was the spirit being who came to Abram and said : 
"I am Almighty God." We believe him to have been a very 
ancient spirit who w*as interested in the welfare of the Jewish 
nation. In Judges 1:19 we read, "And the Lord was with Judah 
and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain, but he could 
not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had 
chariots of iron." I believe, my dear orthodox friends, that the 
Ruler of this Universe could have driven out the inhabitants of 
the valley, as well as those of the mountain. If he could not, 
then he is not Almighty God. 

But we will come now more direct to the subject. Is 
Spiritualism true ? As Spiritualism is simply a belief in spirit 
return, let us ask, is spirit return true ? We answer yes, and to 
take spirit return out of the Bible, you would have nothing of 
any account left. 

There are a great many ways for spirits to communicate with 
mortals, but it is always through a medium of some kind, and 
though mortals are generally used as mediums, yet they are not 
always, as spirits sometimes use articles or pieces of furniture, 
through which to communicate with those in earth-life. Thus 
we read in the Scriptures that some consulted oracles, such as 
the Urim and Thummim, the Divining Rod and Divining Cup, 
Malcolm's Bible Dictionary says, "It seems probable that they 
( the Urim and Thummim ) were the twelve precious stones of 
the high priest's breast-plate, on which were engraven the 
names of the tribes of Israel, and that the letters, by standing 
out, or by an extraordinary illumination, marked such words as 
contained the answer of God to him who consulted this oracle." 

The Divining Rod, or Staff, is mentioned in Hosea 4:12. The 
cup which was placed in Benjamin's sack (Gen. 44:1 to 5) was 
a divining cup used by the king, Joseph also used divination. 
(See 15th verse of this chapter). These were used to receive 
communications from the spirit-world, the same as Planchette, 
Od-Graph, Psyche, and various other instruments are used by 



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those who are mediums — mediumistic enough to get communi- 
cations through them to day. 

Nearly every one has some mediumistic qualities, which by 
time and perseverance could be developed. The following are 
the phases of mediumship to be found amoung mediums today, 
which we will take up in their order, and confirm them by Scrip- 
ture proof ; Clairvoyance, or clear seeing ; Seership, or fore- 
telling of future events ; Clairaudience, or clear hearing ; 
Giving of tests, or test mediumship ; Inspirational speaking, or 
speaking under spirit control; Divining; Healing by laying on 
of hands; by Fabrics, Languages Spoken, Trance, Slate Writing, 
Mind Reading, Spirit Writing, Levitation, or movement of 
bodies without physical contact, Transfiguration, Materialization. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 

The Apostle Paul, in enumerating the gifts of the spirit, I Cor. 
12:10, says: "To some is given the discerning of spirits." 
What will those who would have us believe that spirits and 
angels are two distinct orders of beings do with this passage ? 
If spirits are only those who have passed from the mortal life, 
then this passage speaks of clairvoyance. In Numbers, 22d 
chapter, we have a case of clairvoyance. Several times in 
Verses 23 to 30 we read how Balaam's ass saw an angel in the 
way. In Verse 30 the ass is represented as speaking. About 
this time Balaam himself became clairvoyant. "And the Lord 
opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord 
standing in the way, and his sword in his hand." — Verse 31, 
Here Balaam's inner vision is opened. In II Kings, 6th chapter, 
is another case of clairvoyance. 

"The king of Syria wared against Israel, and took counsel 
with his servants, saying, in such and such a place shall be my 
camp" (Verse 8). In 9 and 10 Blisha warns the king of Israel, 
saying, "Beware that thou pass not such and such a place, for 
thither the Syrians are come down," thereby saving the life of 
the king of Israel. In Verse 11 the king of Syria calls his ser- 
vants "and said unto them, will ye not tell me which of us is 
for the king of Israel." Verse 12 says : "And one of his ser- 
vants said, none my Lord, O king; but Blisha, the prophet that 
is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that thou spakest 
in thy bed chamber." In Verses 13 and 14, the king of Syria 
sends horses and chariots, and a great host to Dothan to take 
Blisha prisoner. In the morning Blisha' s servant finds the city 
compassed about with a great army, and asks, "Alas, my mas- 



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ter! what shall we do?" (Verse 15). In 16 and 17 Elisha 
answers, " Fear not, for they that are with us are more than 
they that be with them," and the Lord opened the eyes of his 
sen-ant in answer to Elisha's prayer, and he saw, and beheld 
the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round 
about Elisha." 

Here we find the inner, spiritual vision opened. In 32 and 33, 
Elisha has a pitting at his house, and there fortells to those sit- 
ting with him that the messenger of the king is on his way to 
take his head, "and while he yet talked with them, the mess- 
enger came." Stephen, the first Christian martyr, when dying 
had his inner vision opened, and saw into heaven. — Acts 7:55:56. 
Job saw a spirit. — Job 4:14:15. He says : "Fear came upon me, 
which made all my bones to shake, then a spirit passed before 
my face; the hair of my flesh stood up." If angels and spirits 
are two distinct orders of creation, as some would have us be- 
lieve, then this is a clear case of spirit return, and clairvoyance. 

SEERSHIP, OR FORETELLING OF FUTURE 

EVENTS. 

Seership, or foretelling of future events, is often mentioned in 
the Bible. The following are a few instances only: I Sam, 9:1 
to 3, we learn that the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. 
In the third verse, Kish sends his son Saul with one of his ser- 
vants to seek the asses. After seeking in vain for the asses, 
Saul, with the servant, is about to return, when Saul bethinks 
himself that at Zuph there is a man of God that can foresee 
and foretell things, and adds, * 'All that he saith cometh surely 
to pass," (4th to 6th verses). From the 8th to 19th verses, we 
learn that they consult the seer, paying him for his services; 
the one-fourth of a shekel of silver. In the 20th verse Samuel, 
the seer, reads the mind of Saul, and says, "As for thine asses 
that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them for 
they are found." This is a clear case of fortune telling for 
money. In the 9th of this chapter we learn that it was custo- 
mary to enquire of God through these seers. "Beforetime in 
Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, 
Come and let us go to the seer, for he that is now called a pro- 
phet, was beforetime called a seer." Instances of consulting 
these seers is found in I Chron. 21:9-11. It was customary 
for kings to have their seers, through whom they got commu- 
nications from God. (Chron. 21:9 & 25:5)/ There are numerous 
gods mentioned in the Bible, but Jehovah was Israel's God. 
God is a spirit. (John 4:24). In Psalms 86:8 David compares 
the spirits, or gods, as follows : "Among the Gods there are 



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none like unto thee, O Lord." In this the inspired writer ac- 
knowledges those other spirits to be gods, but his choice is 
Jehovah. Judges 11:24, the writer says : "Will not thou pos- 
sess that which Chemosh thy God giveth thee to possess ? So 
whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out before us, them 
will we possess," See also Jer. 48:7; I Kings 11:33; II Kings 1:16. 
That there were other gods is also evident from the fact that 
Jehovah himself said : "Thou shalt have none other gods before 
me." (Deut. 5:7). "Every religion has its trinity of gods. The 
Hindu has its Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, with a vast retinue of 
lesser divinities, Brahma was the creator, and Siva the evil one. 
In the theology of the Persians and their descenders, it^ was 
Ormuzd, Serosh, and Ahriman, with a host of subservient spirits, 
Ormuzd was the founder of the universe — the great, good, and 
all wise power. Serosh was the Messianic archangel, who 
directed lost souls to heaven, while Ahriman was the agent of 
destruction and wickedness. ' ' 

"The Egyptians worshipped Osiris and Isis, and their trinity 
embraced Horus the avenger, conqueror of Typhon, restorer of 
life and the seasons, and the mediator between the upper and 
lower worlds. Among the Hebrews, Jehovah held the highest 
place in the pantheon of the deities, and the Romans worshipped 
Jupiter as the Heavenly Father, or the father of both gods and 
men. 

* 'Thus we find very similar ideas and conceptions concerning 
the Divine Being, the Great Author of all things, and the lesser 
angels, divinities, and spirits existing among the various nations 
of antiquity." In Acts 14:8-13, we have an account of Paul's 
healing a man who was a cripple from his mother's womb. The 
nth and 12th verses say : ' 'And when the people saw what Paul 
had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of 
Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of 
men. ' ' * 'And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercurius, 
because he was the chief speaker." Verse 13 adds: "Then 
the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen 
and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with 
the people." All beings who appeared to be supernatural in 
Bible times were taken for gods. 

dyAIRAUDIENCE, OR CI,EAR HEARING. 

In I Sam. 3:4 to 10, we are told how the child Samuel heard 
spirit voices calling him three different times in succession. In 
the 9th chapter, 15th verse, we have another instance. "Now 
the Lord told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying, 
Tomorrow about this time, I will send thee a man out of the 



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land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over 
my people Israel.'] Another instance still is that of Saul of 
Tarsus, mentioned in Acts 26:14; "And when we were all fallen 
to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in 
the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" 
And in Acts 1 1 7, "And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, 
Peter; slay and eat/' 

GIVING OF TESTS. 

In I Sam. io;i to 8, w r e have a most remarkable test given 
through a test medium. After Samuel anoints Saul as Israel's 
king (read whole chapter), we find Samuel saying to Saul :. 
"When thou art departed from me today, thou shalt find two 
men by Rachel's Sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah, 
and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to 
seek are found, and lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, 
and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? 
Then shalt thou go forward from thence, and thou shalt come 
to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men 
going up to God at Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another 
carrying three loves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of 
wine : And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of 
bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands. After that thou 
shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Phil- 
istines : and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither 
to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of Prophets coming 
down from the high place with a Psaltery, and a Tabret, and a 
Pipe, and a Harp before them, and they shall prophesy : And 
the spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt 
prophesy with them and shalt be turned into another man * 
And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou 
do as occasion serve thee, for God is with thee : And thou 
shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come 
down unto thee to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices 
of peace offerings : Seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to 
thee, and show thee what thou shalt do." Verse 9 says : "And 
it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, 
God gave him another heart : And all these signs came to pass 
that day." In I Kings 14:1 to 6 is another remarkable test, 
given to the wife of Jeroboam the king. The son of Jeroboam 
was sick, and the wife of Jeroboam the king disguises herself at 
her husband's request, and taking ten loaves of bread, some 
cracknels, and a bottle of honey, with which to pay an old 
blind prophet — seer, or medium. It may not have been very 
popular to consult mediums in those days, so she disguised her- 



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self, as many do today when consulting mediums. In Verse 6 
we are told that, "When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as 
she came in at the door, that he said, Come in thou wife of 
Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent 
to thee with heavy tidings. ' ' After giving her a message, giving 
tests concerning the overthrow of her husband's kingdom, he 
finally concludes his message, in Verse 12, as follows : "Arise 
thou therefore, get thee to thine own house; and when thy feet 
enter into the city thy child shall die." In Verse 17 the 
historian tells us that when she came to threshold of the door 
the child died, and if we read the history further we will find 
that every point in these predictions met a literal fulfillment. 

INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKING. 

Inspirational speaking, or speaking under spirit control, is 
quite frequently mentioned in the Scriptures. Many of our 
mediums never know a single word that they utter when de- 
livering an inspirational address, while others are in a conscious 
state, but have no control of their vocal organs while speaking. 
We believe the same to be true of those who prophesied, or spoke 
under spirit control in Bible times. We may infer from Num. 
22:38 that Balaam the prophet had no power to utter other than 
the words the Lord spake through him. In I Sam. , 10th chapter, 
Samuel anoints Saul and foretells that Saul is to become a pro- 
phet — seer, and in the 6th verse says : 'And the spirit of the 
Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, 
(the company of prophets mentioned in 5th verse) and thou 
shalt be turned into another man. ' ' Saul was not himself while 
under spirit control. Should any medium today be controlled 
to do what Saul did, (I Sam. 19:24) the Christian Church would" 
lift up its hands in ' 'holy horror' ' and denounce mediumship as 
the work of an orthodox devil, yet we are told (Verse 23) that 
it was that spirit spoken of so often in the Bible as God. Any 
message coming from a spirit source through a prophet — seer — 
was supposed to come from a god. 

Thus we read of the prophets of the Lord, the prophets of 
Baal, and other prophets. We are sometimes asked why it is 
that our mediums commit errors at times in their prophesies. 
' 'Spirits themselves, through much more acute in their percep- 
tions of the future than mortals, are but human. True and 
reliable prophesies can come from only very high spirits. Isaiah 
or Jeremiah could make false prophesies and still hold the seat 
of honor as God's prophets. Isa. 17:1 declares that Damascus 
shall be "a ruinous heap" and Jeremiah predicts its destruction 
by fire, and yet it stands up to this very time as a superb com- 



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mereial city, which, according to Burckhardt, has a population 
of a quarter of a million." In Ezek. 2:2 we have a case of a 
spirit entering into Ezekiel, and using his vocal organs, spoke 
unto the prophet. "And he said unto me, Son of man, stand 
upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. And the spirit entered 
into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that 
I heard him that spake unto me." Acts 19:13 to 16, we read of 
a case where an evil spirit spoke through the organism of a 
mortal. "Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took 
it upon them to call over them w T hich had evil spirits, the name 
of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul 
preacheth, And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and 
chief of the priests which did so. And the evil spirit answered 
and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?" In 
Acts 2 14 we read, ' 'And they were all filled with the Holy 
Ghost, and began to speak w T ith other tongues (no rare thing 
among mediums today) as the spirit gave them utterance." 

In comforting the disciples against persecutions, Jesus, in 
Matt. 10:19:20 says, "But when they deliver you up, take no 
thought how, or what ye shall speak : For it is not *ye that 
speak, but the spirit of your Father that speak eth in you." In 
Mark 16:17, in enumerating the signs that should follow them 
that believed in his name, Jesus told his disciples that "they 
shall speak with new tongues." Acts 19:6 says, "And when 
Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came on them, 
and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. ' ' Again, in Luke 
21:14 and 15, after telling his disciples how they should be 
brought before kings and rulers for his sake, Jesus tells them, 
"Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what 
ye shall answer : For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, 
which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor 
resist. ' ' 

DIVINING. 

In Gen. 44:1 to 5, we learn that the silver cup belonging to 
Joseph, which he caused to be placed in Benjamin's sack, was 
used by king Pharaoh as a divining cup, and in the 15th verse 
we learn that Joseph himself — one of God's best boys — practiced 
divination. In Numbers 22:7 we are told that in coming to 
Balaam — one of God's prophets — "The elders of Moab, and the 
elders of Midian took with them the rewards of divination." 
Balaam himself, though a prophet of God, sought enchant- 
ment. (Numbers 24:1.) 

HEADING BY RAYING ON OF HANDS. 

Acts 28:8:9 reads : "And it came to pass that the father of 



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Publius lay sick of a fever, and of a bloody flux, to whom Paul 
entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed 
him. So when this was done, others also which had diseases in 
the island, came, and were healed." After Christ had arisen 
from the dead, he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat: 
4 'And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach 
my gospel unto every creature. And these signs shall follow 
them that believe, In my name shall they cast out devils (evil 
spirits ) . They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up 
serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt 
them, they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 
(Mark 16:15:17:18). 

Should one have those gifts today in the Church, that one 
would be turned over to the spiritualists as one who is linked 
in with the devil. There are scores of such healers in the 
ranks of spiritualism today, but the Church has lost the power 
to heal, because they have lost the Christ spirit. Healing is one 
of the gifts mentioned by Paul, in his letter to the Corinthians 
(1 Cor. 12:9). In chapter 14:1 Paul exhorts to "Follow after 
charity, and desire spiritual gifts." 

HEADING BY FABRICS. 

Acts 19:11:12, "And God wrought special miracles by the 
hands of Paul, so that from his body was brought unto the sick 
handkerchiefs, or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, 
and the evil spirits went out of them. There are thousands to- 
day in the world that can testify that they have been cured by 
wearing pieces of flannel which had been magnetized by healing 
meduims, and sent sometimes great distances through the 
mails. I know that many sceptics will laugh at the idea of such 
a thing, but psychometry has demonstrated that our magne- 
tism is conveyed to every thing with which we come in contact. 

LANGUAGES SPOKEN. 

It is a frequent thing for mediums under spirit control to 
speak in — to them — unknown tongues. In Acts 2:5:8, we learn 
that at Pentacoste "There were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, 
devout men, out of every nation under heaven : Now when 
this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were 
confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his 
own language : And they were all amazed and marveled, saying 
one to another, Behold, are not all those which speak Galilaeans ? 
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we 
were born ? 



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TRANCE. 

The trance is one of the most common phases of mediumship. 
The subiebct sometimes being fully entranced will leave the 
body and visit distant localities. John O. Wattles, of Kansas, 
well known in the west as one of the most eloquent and earnest 
laborers in the antislavery cause, at a time when to be such was 
to be ostracised, accidentally discovered that his spirit could at 
will leave the body and return, and he frequently looks down as 
a spectator upon his body lying in a death-like trance, and then 
roams at pleasure over the earth, and returns again. Prof. 
William Denton, in a little book — "Is Spiritualism True" (Page 
18) says: "Mrs. Cridge, Mrs. Denton, and my son Sherman, 
travel spiritually with great ease, and describe with great accu- 
racy distant localities never visited by them." Dr. A. J. Davis, 
of Boston, Mass., also enters what he terms the "Superior 
State," in which he leaves the body and visits the spirit world 
at will. 

There are hundreds of trance mediums today in the world. 
Acts 22:17, we learn that Paul fell into a trance while praying 
in the temple. While in the trance state the medium often 
describes the glories of the celestial country, and gives the 
names and description of loved ones who have lain off the mor- 
tal, and passed to that beautiful country. In II Cor. 12:2:4, 
Paul, in writing to the brethren says, "I knew a man in Christ 
above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell, or 
whether out of the body I cannot tell ; God knoweth ) ; such an 
one caught up to the third heavens. And I knew such a man 
(whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell, God 
knoweth); How that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard 
unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." 

Paul in making his "defense" before the "chief captain," and 
rehearsing his history, says, "And it came to pass that when I 
was come again to Jerusalem; even while I prayed in the 
temple, I was in a trance." (Acts 22:17). Again, Acts 10:9, 
"Peter went up on the house to pray about the sixth hour, and 
became very hungry, and would have eaten, but while they 
made ready, he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened." 
Paul was doubtlessly entranced when he was "caught up into 
the third heaven," for he says he could not tell whether he 
was in or out oT the body at that time. 

SI/ATB WRITING. 

This is one of the finest phases of mediumship that can be 
developed, as it is one of the most convincing, when coming 



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through a genuine medium. In Exodus 31:18 we read : ''And 
he (the Lord) gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of 
communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testi- 
mony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." (See 
also Exodus 24:12, Deut. 4:13). 

A slate is a table of stone and whether Moses ever received 
a communication from a spirit, I do not know. (God is a spirit; 
John 4:24). The orthodox Christian believes he did, though 
the account of it was recorded so long after the death of Moses 
that the historian says: "No man know r eth of his sepulchre 
unto this day." (Deut. 34:6). 

To me it is the most likely thing in the world. On the 23d 
of June, 1891, I met my mother in materialized form at Mrs. 
Cadwell's, in N. Y. City, and talked with her, she greeting me 
with all the tenderness of a mother's love. In the evening of 
the same day, I, in company with John Fortune and another 
friend from Shamokin, visited Mrs. Mott Knight to get a sitting 
with her for "Slate Writing." Neither of us ever met her 
before and as she knew nothing of the questions we were to 
ask, or of our spirit friends, she therefore had no way of making 
any preparation or of preparing the messages beforehand, as 
some people would have us believe they do. On taking our 
seats at the table, the medium gave us each three slips of paper 
upon which we were to write our questions, addressing them to 
our friends in spirit-life, saying, as she did so, that we should 
turn the written side of our slips down upon the table. The 
medium then left the room until our questions had been pre- 
pared. During the medium's absence we turned the little table 
upside down, and a thorough examination of the same satisfied 
us that so far as the table was concerned there certainly was no 
chance for deception or fraud. 

The medium soon entered the room to see if we were read}^ 
and taking her seat at the table told us to pick our slates 
from the little stand a few feet away from the table, upon which 
were placed a dozen or more slates. The medium then asked 
each in turn which of the slips we wanted answered first. Mr. 
Fortune's first question read : "If my father is present with 
me and can give me a message from spirit-life, please do so with 
your signature. " To this question Mr, Fortune signed no names 
so that the medium had no way of knowing his or his father's, 
name. Mr. Fortune was then requested to place his slate upon 
his own hand and hold it under the table, with the upper 
surface of _ the slate against the under side of the table. The 
medium sitting on the opposite side of , the table then placed her 
left hand on the table, while her right hand was placed under 



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Mr. F's hand, beneath the slate. Writing was immediately 
heard, followed by raps upon the slate. Upon examination the 
following message appeared upon the slate : 

My Dear Boy : 

This will come to your town some time. 
Your Father, 

John Fortune. 

Upon my first slip I asked mother for a few words from spirit 
life and upon my slate obtained the following : 

My Dear Son : 

I am not as strong as I was to day. Amanda can 
write you. 

Mother. 

I want to say that I met both Amanda (my brother Stephen's 
first wife) and mother that day at Mrs. Cadwell's, a few hours 
before receiving the messages on the slate. The medium then 
told me to take two slates instead of one, which I did, receiving 
two messages, one being from my father and the other from 
Amanda. The message from father was as follows : 

My Dear Lewis : 

I am so glad, for we are all helping to convince 
the world of this grand truth. William will some 
time believe in this. 

Father. 

The William referred to is my brother, who had just begun to 
investigate, but who, at that time, was not fully convinced of 
the truth of spirit return. These messages prove to my mind 
that those who loved us before the mortal form went down into 
the darkness of the tomb still live and live to love us. 

Mr. Charles Watkins, of Cleveland, Ohio, now of Ayer, 
Mass. , the wonderful medium for obtaining slate writing between 
closed slates, was severely tested by the Rev. Joseph Cook and 
a party of ^v\^ sceptics in the library of Kpes Sargent in Boston, 
Mass. The committee certified ''that two slates were clamped 
together with strong brass fixtures and held at arm's length by 
Mr. Cook, when a message was found on the inner surfaces." 
If these messages were not from a spirit source whence are 
they. Our orthodox friends will no doubt say that Moses ob- 
tained his from God and that ours are from the devil. 

MIND READING. 

The people of Shamokin have had such convincing proof of 



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the genuineness of this phase of mediumship through Prof. H. 
Calif that it seems almost useless to say anything in connection 
with this phase, but we will say that there are hundreds of mind 
readers in the ranks of spiritualism today. Cases of mind 
reading I have already given under the head of Seership; we 
will recall a few of them, 

In I Sam., 9th chapter, we have the account of Saul's visit to 
Samuel the seer, to consult him in regard to his father's asses 
which are lost. Saul met Samuel, and not knowing who he was, 
said unto him (18th verse) : ''Tell me, I pray thee, where the 
seer's house is." In Verses 19:20 we read, "And Samuel 
answered Saul, and said, I am the seer : go up before me unto 
the high place, for ye shall eat with me today, and tomorrow I 
will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thy heart: And 
as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind 
on them, for they are found." In II Kings, 6th chapter, the 
king of Syria wars against the king of Israel. In the nth verse, 
the king of Syria calls his servants "and said unto them, Will 
ye not tell me which of us is for the king of Israel." Verse 12, 
one of his servants said, "Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, 
tells the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed- 
chamber. ' ' 

People who know nothing concerning these "spiritual gifts" 
naturally think that Elisha was one of the most wonderful men 
that ever lived. A meduim living in Ohio saw the danger that 
was menacing the late Jas. A. Garfield and went to Washington 
to warn him. He had an interview with the martyred President 
and forecast the future for him and told him that unless he 
exercised extraordinary precaution and care he would surely be 
assassinated. The President received the messenger most 
tenderly, but did not deem the message of sufficent importance 
to act upon its suggestions, hence the assassination that followed 
and which possibly might have been prevented. 

Marguerite St. Omer, test medium, attended a meeting June 
7th, 1 89 1, at Hanson, Mass., where Dr. H. B. Storer was lectur- 
ing. On their return home it was reported that a young man 
had been drowned on Friday and his body could not be found. 
They called at the house where the young man used to board. 
She said, "I see the young man. He was about 25 years old, was 
a good swimmer. You need not send to Boston for a diver for he 
is only 15 feet from the point of land, and when they pull him 
out they will hook him in the eye." This was reported to them 
and in a few minutes they pulled him out. The Boston Daily 
Globe had the following: "It is stated that a clairvoyant told 
the searches where to look. ' ' 



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SPIRIT WRITING. 

Mediums for this phase are many. One of the most remark- 
able instances of spirit writing is to be found in II Chron. 21:12- 
15. Here Elijah the prophet writes a letter to Jehoram, king of 
Judah, eleven years after his — Elijah's — translation. The tran- 
slators of the King James Version have tried to cover up this 
fact by stating in the margin that the letter was written before 
Elijah's death. 

There are two Jehorams, one was the son of Ahab, who reign- 
ed in the latter part of Elijah's life on earth. The other was 
the son of Jehoshaphat, and did not enter upon his reign until 
seven years after Elijah's translation, and reigned eight years. 
We learn that this Jehoram was Jehoshaphat's son, from the 
statememt made in the letter : "Because thou hast not walked 
in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father," &c. Again, the tran- 
slators must have forgotten that Elijah was translated without 
tasting death. Another proof that this writing w r as given after 
Elijah's translation we get thus: II Chron. 20:31, w T e learn that 
Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah 25 years. II Kings, 2, we have 
the account of Elijah's translation. In Chapter 3, 1st verse, 
Jehoram, the son of Ahab, began to reign — which is eight years 
after Elijah's translation — over Israel. At this time ( 1st verse) 
Jehoshaphat had reigned but 18 years, having yet to reign seven 
years to fill up his 25 year's reign. At the end of his reign — 
seven years after Elijah's translation — according to II Chron. 
21:1, Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, began to reign in his father's 
stead, and the 5th verse says that he reigned eight years in 
Jerusalem. 

According to the 18th and 19th verses of this chapter the Lord 
smites him with a disease from which he dies at the end of two 
years. As a great part of his wicked reign was before receiving 
this writing — Verses 12 to 15 — we may safely place the receiving 
of it about the fourth year — or middle — of his reign, which 
four years added to the seven year's reign of Jehoshaphat, his 
father, after the translation of Elijah, would just make the 
eleven years between Elijah's translation and the receiving of 
this writing by Jehoram. Further proof that this writing came 
from Elijah, after Jehoram began to reign, is the £act that his 
wicked reign is spoken of in the letter, or writing. 

The Bible, therefore, clearly proves and sanctions — 

ist — The communications of those who have passed to 

spirit life. 
2nd — That spirit writing is proven beyond a doubt by 
Biblical history. 



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In Daniel, 5th chapter, we have another case of spirit 
writing. A materialized hand writes npon the walls of Belshaz- 
zar's palace the words "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin." Both 
these wicked kings are reproved for their wicked acts and 
warned of their approaching destruction. Other cases of spirit 
writing could be given from the Bible, but these two should be 
sufficient to establish the fact that spirits can and do communi- 
cate with mortals. Let those who wish to pursue the subject 
further examine I Chron., 28th chapter, where a spirit writing is 
given to David, giving the pattern of the temple and its furni- 
ture. It was written by God's sanction and direction. There- 
fore, God sanctions spirit writing. 

INVITATION, OR THE MOVEMENT OF 
HEAVY BODIES. 

This cannot properly be classed among the phases of medium- 
ship, but is liable to take place in the presence of any medium, 
or in any circle of investigators. At the home of an intimate 
friend of mine — Edwin Woman, of Boonton, N, J. — I saw a 
table lifted midway between the floor and ceiling of the room 
during a sitting. John Fortune threw himself bodily across the 
table, but it was raised with him on it. Three persons then 
caught hold of the table, and such a tussling match as they 
had I never witnessed before, nor since. Among those that 
witnessed this was Joseph Cardwell, of Shamokin, who, I think, 
was one of the three who tussled with the table, which toward 
the last turned upside down, with its legs pointing toward the 
ceiling. 

Magnetism ! says some • 'smart Aleck. ' ' I afterward saw the 
same table leave the centre of the room and by request go to 
some of the sitters, no one being within ten feet of the centre 
of the room, and saw it answer questions intelligently by rising 
on its two legs and descending again upon the floor, three times 
for yes, twice for no, once for doubtful or don't know. You 
may gather in one all the magnetism in the universe and all 
the electricity that all the dynamos in the world could generate 
and apply it to lifeless, inert matter and it could not beget rea- 
son nor cause one intelligent movement. But there is an intel- 
ligent force manifested in the movement of a table when the 
letters of the alphabet needed to spell out a communication 
from a loved one in spirit life are rapped out, and that intelligent 
force is spirit. 

It is a frequent thing for mediums to be lifted and carried 
about the room without physical contact. At a meeting of the 
"Society for Psychic Research," Mrs. Flower, wife of B. O. 



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Flower, Editor of the "Arena," was lifted, with a rocking 
chair in which she was sitting, and placed on a table, in the 
presence of many witnesses. I would state that this society is 
composed mainly of Ministers of the Gospel, the object of the 
society being to investigate Psychic Phenomena. An account 
of the above was given in the "Philadelphia Press" shortly after 
it occurred. 

Levitatiou is several times referred to in the Bible. The fol- 
lowing are a few T instances : "And it shall come to pass, that 
as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord 
shall carry thee wdiither I know not." (I Kings 18:12). "And 
it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, 
there appeared a chariot of fire, and parted them both asunder; 
and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." — (2 Kings 2: 
11). "Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a 
voice of a great rushing." (Ezek. 3:12). "So the spirit lifted me 
up, and took me away." (Ezek. 3:14). "The Spirit of the 
Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw. him no more; 
and he went on his way rejoicing; but Philip was found at 
Azotus: And passing through he preached in all the cities till 
he came to Caesarea." (Acts 8:39:40). 

TRANSFIGURATION. 

Many times has this phase of phenomena been produced 
where the medium has been transfigured and led out into the 
room in an unconscious state, and claiming at such time to be a 
friend w T ho has passed to spirit life. Should some one at such 
time seize the form they would find it to be that of the med- 
ium, while the spirit is just as truly the one it claims to be, as 
it would be, if it came in a body materialized for the purpose. 

The Rev. C. H. Fitzwilliam once told me that if he ever had 
the opportunity of attending a materializing seance that he 
would have blood, if there was any. If he failed to get that, 
then he would be satisfied that it was a genuine spirit manifes- 
tation. He also told others that he would want the privilege of 
firing a revolver at the head of a form and if it failed to kill he 
would then believe it was a spirit. As the spirit draws upon 
the very life-forces of the medium to materialize its form, any 
injury done the form must and will react upon the medium 
and produce ofttimes fatal results, except where the medium and 
the spirit are made aware of the tests to be applied, then the 
controls will prepare for it by severing, for the time being, the 
battery between them and the medium, the medium regaining 
his or her normal condition. 

I have many times known this to occur where sceptical persons 



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have been permitted to put a finger in the eye of the material- 
ized form. This was done in my own home on two different 
occasions, at one seance there being twenty-three persons pres- 
ent, at another twenty-nine persons. One of the persons thus 
privileged, after admitting the fact to certain ones, afterward 
denied it to others. Spirits reading the mind of a sceptic very 
often use such means to convince them that they are really 
what they claim to be — materialized spirit forms. 

In enumerating the signs that should follow those that be- 
lieve in his name, Jesus says, in Mark 16:18, "They shall take 
up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not 
hurt them." I wonder how many could submit to the above 
Scripture test to prove their genuineness as Christians. If a 
genuine Christian, there certainly could come no harm from 
such a testing. I would make no mention of this passage but 
for the unreasonable tests asked for as to the genuineness of 
spirit manifestations. 

On the 17th of May, 1890, at 9:45 A. M., my mother left her 
mortal form. At 11:30 I took the train at Boonton, N. J,, and 
went thirty -three miles to attend a materializing seance at Mrs. 
Cadwell's, in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y. The medium never 
saw me before that time, had no way of knowing that I was to 
visit her that day, nor of my mother's having passed to spirit 
life that morning. At that seance my mother materialized, and 
coming from the cabinet, threw both arms about my neck, 
kissed me, and exclaimed, "God bless you, my dear boy!" She 
then spoke of her children, sayings "Tell William, Emma, 
Augusta, and the rest not to mourn so for me for I am through 
my suffering and am perfectly happy where I am. ' ' 

On the 24th of Dec, 1889, at Mrs. Gray's, 323 W. 34th Street, 
New York City, I saw — fully ten feet away from the cabinet — 
within five feet of my eyes, a form rise apparently out of the 
floor, assuming gradually the form of a lovely female, giving 
the name of "Star Bye." I spoke to her, felt her hand, heard 
her speak as one in the mortal form would do, then watched 
the same form dematerialize again, standing on the very spot 
where but a few moments before it — the spirit — had clothed 
itself in materiality. Finally all had vanished except a lumi- 
nous spot about the size of a ladies' handkerchief. Gazing in- 
tently upon this I beheld, gradually developing, the head of a 
man, then the shoulders, arms, and finally the whole form of 
an old gentleman, giving his name as Dr. Baker. I heard him 
answer questions put to him in regard to things on the spirit 
side of life and saw him disappear again as mysteriously as he 
came. I examined the carpet on that floor and found it to be 



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whole. I never think of those two forms coming up, apparent- 
ly through the floor, without thinking of the words of the 
woman of En-dor in answer to Saul's question: "What sawest 
thou?" "I saw gods ascending out of the earth." 

If prejudice is cast aside and perfect conditions are given, our 
loved ones are ever ready to give us satisfactory evidence of the 
fact that spirits do return to mortals. Some people will sneer if 
told that it requires perfect harmony for spirit manifestations 
and yet those very persons, before a revival of religion, will 
spend a week in prayer and exhortation, getting the members 
of their church of one mind and in perfect harmony with each 
other, and when those conditions are met, who ever heard of 
that church failing to receive a baptism of the spirit ? 

We have one case of transfiguration mentioned in the Scrip- 
tures, in Mark 9:2:3, which reads: "And after six days Jesus 
taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them 
up into an high mountain apart by themselves: And he was 
transfigured before them: And his raiment became shining, 
exceeding white as snow, so as no fuller on earth could white 
them." And there appeared unto them Klias with Moses: And 
they were talking with Jesus." This spiritual manifestion 
must indeed have been grand. ' 'And Peter answered and said 
unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make 
three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for 
Elias." We can enter most fully into the feeling of Peter at 
this time, for who is there that ever attended a seance where 
they have met and talked with their loved ones whom death 
for a short time has seemed to separate from us, who has not felt 
as did Peter; but they soon vanish from our sight again. "And 
suddenly, when they looked round about, they saw no man any 
more, save Jesus only with themselves." (Verse 8). How often 
have we witnessed just such scenes, but we are glad even for 
these occasional visits, knowing that it will not be long, at the 
longest, till we, too, shall lay aside this robe of flesh which, as 
Paul says, is only the house we live in, and be permitted to join 
them once more in the summerland where partings shall be no 
more. 

MATERIALISATION. 

This is the crowning phase of all mediumship. Many will 
not believe that a spirit can take on a material body so as to be- 
come tangible to our sense of touch, and talk with those who 
are still on the earth plane because they know nothing of the 
laws governing this phase ef spirit return. Mrs. Cora L, V. 
Richmond says : "If you would know the laws governing ma- 



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terialization you would guard them as carefully, preserve the 
conditions as sacredly, treat them with the same kind of defer- 
ence and the same kind of reason that you do the carefully 
prepared plate, the electric battery, the various refined and 
subtle processes of chemical science that are oftentimes experi- 
mented with a thousand times before there is one successful 
result. The matter of which these forms are composed are 
taken — First, and mainly, from the medium, whom they usually 
entrance; Second, from the parties present at the seance, who 
may be mediumistic, and from whom they draw, and from the 
atmosphere which contains the particles of matter that are 
being constantly thrown off from the bodies of every one pres- 
ent at the seance," and by the chemical and electrical manipu- 
lation of these atoms of matter, spirits do, in a very short time 
build up a body which, by the ordinary process of nature, 
would require years to produce. 

Materialization may be classed under two different heads, viz: 
Partial and full form materialization. A case of partial mater- 
ialization is mentioned in Dan. 5:5: "In the same hour came 
forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the 
candlestick upon the plaster of the walls of the king's palace, 
and the king saw the hand that wrote. ' ' There are thousands 
of living witnesses in the world to-day to this kind of spirit 
writing. 

The following we quote from the "Religion of Spiritualism," 
by Rev. Samuel Watson. Page 61, he says: "I mention one 
of many incidents which have occurred in my own house. A 
Methodist preacher, a member of the North Miss. Couference, 
and his wife, were spending a few days with us. They occu- 
pied a room in the south end of the third story. About noon, 
on a clear day, a little girl came to see us. At my request she 
went up to the preacher's room, into which she had never been. 
His shawl was spread over a small writing table. A slate was 
held by her under the cloth, with a small piece of pencil on it. 
A materialized hand wrote a number of messages, which the 
preacher said were from his father, long since passed to the 
spirit-land. A hand bouble the size of the girl's was extended 
from under the shawl, showing it in sunlight some distance up 
the wrist. The hand shook hands with the minister, his wife, 
and others who were present. It possessed a strength which 
was tested stronger than one or two of those whom it em- 
braced. ' ' 

In the 1 8th chapter of Genesis we have a case of spirits 
taking on a material form. In the first verse, one claiming to 
be the I,ord appears to Abraham. "And he lifted up his eyes 



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and looked, and lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw 
them he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed him- 
self toward the ground: And said, My Lord if now I have 
found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee from thy 
servant." (Verse 2 and 3). From 4th to 8th verse, Abraham 
washes their feet and prepares them a meal and they partook 
of it. I was once told when quoting this passage that it 
did not state that they had their feet washed, but their reply, 
"So do as thou hast said," in the latter part of the 5th verse, in 
answer to the words, "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, 
and wash your feet," proves this. It is immaterial who did the 
washing act; my point is to prove that these beings had mater- 
ialized bodies. 

A spirit body cannot partake of coarse material food. In the 
19th chapter of this book, there came two angels to Lot, at 
even, as he sat in the gate of Sodom. These he addresses as 
1 'my lords, ' ' in the second verse. In Verses 2 and 3, ' 'They wash 
their feet, and Lot made a feast, and did bake unleavened bread 
and they did eat, ' ' thereby proving that these heavenly visi- 
tants also had for the time being material bodies. We might 
go on to show that other of these messengers had bodies as 
tangible to the material touch and sense as are our own bodies 
to our sense and touch. But we will now examine carefully an 
account of a "Materializing Seance," in Bible times. In 
I Samuel, 28th chapter, we have an account of Saul's visiting a 
woman, who the translators of the King James Version have 
seen fit to call a witch, but in the Hebrew Scriptures is only 
spoken of as the "woman of Bn-dor," — they being about as 
honest as a majority of the orthodox divines of to-day. In the 
3d verse, after Samuel was dead, Saul banished all those that 
had familiar spirits, out of the land. In the 5th verse we read: 
"And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, 
and his heart greatly trembled." Verse 6 adds: "And when 
Saul enquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither 
by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets — or seers. (See 
I Sam. 9:9). 

We now find that this Saul has at last to fall back upon the 
very class of people whom he has been persecuting — the poor 
mediums. In Verse 8, he disguises himself — as a great many 
people do to-day when going to a medium — after learning from 
his servant that there is a woman at Bn-dor through whose 
mediumship the departed ones can come back to this world and 
commune with those yet in the earth-life. He takes the night 
time for it. This seance is composed of, as far as we can learn 
from the historian, three persons. In the nth verse the medium 



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asks '-Saul, ''Whom shall I bring up into thee?" "And he 
said, Bring me up Samuel." "And when the woman saw 
Samuel she cried with a loud voice: And the woman spake to 
Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul." 
In the 13th verse, in answer to Saul's question, "What sawest 
thou" the woman replied, "I saw gods ascending out of the 
earth," thereby showing what I have before said, that these 
materialized forms were called gods. From the 15th to 21st 
verse there is quite a lengthy conversation between Samuel and 
Saul, in which Samuel tells Saul that all his trouble has come 
about through Saul's failure to execute the fierce wrath of the 
Lord upon Amalek. 

Let us see what the command of this "Lord" was concerning 
Amalek. I Sam 15:3, "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly 
destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both 
man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and 
ass." One of this "God's" commands was, "Thou shalt not 
kill," and yet we find the 'most horrible, wholesale butcheries 
committed at the express command of this God. In the 19th 
verse Samuel tells Saul that on the morrow he and his sons 
should be with him. If we read the remaining chapters of this 
book we will find that on the morrow Saul and his three sons 
were killed in battle, in exact fulfillment of the words of 
Samuel. 

In Genesis 32:24 to 32 we have an account of one of these 
heavenly visitants wrestling w T ith Jacob. This could not have 
been done unless the spirit had been clothed with a tangible, 
material body, In Verse 24 this being is called a man. In 
Verse 30, Jacob concludes that he has really had a wrestling 
match with the Creator, and Ruler of this Universe. "And 
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God 
face to face, and my life is preserved, "again showing that these 
beings were taken for gods. 

We now come to a New Testament seance. In the 9th of 
Mark we find that ' 'Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, 
and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by 
themselves: and he was transfigured before them. * ■ • -* * 
And there appeared unto them Elias and Moses, and they were 
talking with Jesus. ' ' Here we have two spirit beings who had 
once lived in the mortal, coming back to the children of earth, 
and yet we find those who will tell us of "that bourne whence 
no traveler returns. ' ' 

In closing this phase of mediumship, I will give a few 
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Navy— account, which he with others witnessed, and published 
in London, England, but which I copy from "The Religion of 
Spiritualism," a book written by the Rev. Samuel Watson, a 
Methodist minister of Memphis, Tenn., and for sale by Day & 
Pitman, No. 9 Bosworth St., Boston, Mass. The Rev. Thomas 
Colley is a Baptist minister, as is also the medium on this occa- 
sion — the Rev. Dr. Monck — who, by the way, is one of the 
greatest living mediums. Following are a few extracts pub- 
lished by J. Burns, London : 

"Dr. Monck was again medium. Four of us constituted the 
circle, all in perfect rapport with our instrument, having that 
confidence in him which is of knowledge, which yet for the 
sake of others and the better to observe what transpired, did 
not prevent us from taking every care in the application of 
tests that should answer for the genuineness of the manifesta- 
tions and satisfy the most exacting." 

"The sitting was wholly for materialization and the first form 
that appeared was that of a child, as it were, as we on this side 
of eternity would say, about six or seven years of age. This 
figure, in view of all, grew out of the medium's left side as he 
stood before us. It had all the actions and ways of human 
childhood; clapped its little hands, pursed its mouth to kisses, 
and spoke in pretty accents, Dr. Monck, under control, speak- 
ing to it and instructing it like an elder brother; then after a 
few minutes' further stay, sliding back into the medium, it 
gradually disappeared. 

"The next form was none other than Dr. Monck's old earth 
friend, fellow student, brother minister and chief spirit-control, 
Samuel Wheeler. When he, in like manner issuing forth, 
first stepped from the medium into separate being, Dr. Monck 
was unconscious, under control of 'Lily' and her voice through 
him contrasted very markedly with the voice of the material- 
ized form — it, to the very syllable, being the voice of 'Samuel,' 
as when speaking through the medium. But this did not 
satisfy our spirit-friend, for the marvel of the night's effort had 
yet to culminate. Conditions being so good, 'Samuel' thought 
he might dematerialize and awake Dr. Monck, and then to be 
able to dematerialize with the medium in his normal state, fully 
alive to all that transpired, and conscious of the astounding fact 
we were to witness, and successful beyond all conception of the 
mystery, was this most unique experiment; for after the first 
alarm of Dr. Monck had passed away, and after the pain and 
nervous snatchings he felt in the process of his friend's evolu- 
tion from himself had subsided, medium and spirit-form con- 
versed naturally together, and the astonishment and glee of the 



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former were only equaled by our profound sense of inability 
adequately to grasp at first the vast significance of this amazing 
demonstration of occult power. Equally with the child-form 
did Samuel Wheeler show all the attributes of humanity, and 
in his case, reason and ripe manhood, as in her's, girlishness and 
simplicity. He was not unlike the medium in stature, form, 
and bearing; and one of our company having intimately known 
'Samuel', in the earth-life (being frequently one of his congre- 
gation when our spirit-friend was, as our medium also was, a 
Baptist minister), unhesitatingly declared that this 'Samuel 
Wheeler' was that 'Samuel Wheeler,' and none other. 

"So for some time the spirit, temporarily clothed with earthly 
elements, molecular agglutinations and atomic gatherings, that 
thronging in from spirit — attraction and life — magnetism, cling- 
ing round the soul — Deity's central fact — form the visible man, 
the spirit thus endued, compacted, and embodied, stayed and 
talked with us, walked about with his old friend Dr. Monck, 
and greeted his other friend joyfully, and did many other things 
to show how perfectly he was a man, and then at last, psycho- 
logical laws ( about which we are altogether in the dark ) com- 
pelling, reluctantly retired, and drifting back into the medium, 
threw him into trance and resumed control. 

"And now a new sensation was in store for us. A spirit- 
form, eight inches taller than Dr. Monck, grew from him by 
degrees, and building itself up into giant proportions with mus- 
cular limbs, developed like statuary of bronze, and of the color, 
there came into disconnected, independent, vigorous life, apart 
from the medium, an ancient Egyptian. From its general 
aspect, dress and manner, I addressed it as such at once without 
a moment's doubt or hesitation. For ancient Egypt has been a 
favorite study with me, and in modern Egyptians I have, when 
in the East, endeavored to trace the ancient masters of Israel 
and the sciences, and have dreamed amid the ruins of the temple 
of Isis, and sketched the blue tuniced and turbaned descen- 
dant of the Pharaoh's, and have pleasant recollections of an 
Egyptian Fellah, Zozab, who used to accompany me through 
the bazaars, and pioneer me through the intricacies of Suez; and 
if ever Bui wer's Arbaces the Egyptian, in the "Last Days of 
Pompeii," had existence other than in the mind of the author, 
it was here embodied in the materalized form I handled and 
closely scrutinized last night. 

"The vitality and power of this spirit were remarkable; it 
walked with manly step and dignified carriage round and about 
the room, before and behind us, without fear or hesitation; ap- 
peared curious about, and leisurely inspected the furniture and 



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ornaments of the room; took up a chair and placed it on the 
table; brought us books and other things, and then, taking the 
chair from the table, placed it close to mine and sat down at my 
side. Meanwhile I closely introspected it and felt its anatomy, 
the medium standing at my left side while 'Mahedi' (the Egypt- 
ian ) was seated at my right. I now got the spirit to measure 
hands, placing its palm on mine. The hand (stone cold, while 
the medium's was burning hot,) was small, like all Eastern's 
and the wrist was also small, but the arm was massive, muscular, 
bronzed, and hairy. Its eyes were black and piercing, but not 
unkindly; its hair lank and jet, and mustache and beard long 
and drooping, its features full of life and expression, yet 
Sphynx-like. Its head-dress was very peculiar, a sort of 
metal skull-cap with an emblem in front, overhanging the 
brow, which trembled and quivered and glistened. I was 
suffered to feel it, but as I did so it seemed to melt away like a 
snow-flake under my touch, to grow solid again the moment 
after. 

"Altogether our mysterious visitant was a weird and everlast- 
ing puzzle. But for the sake of an inner circle studying with 
me the correspondence and causative philosophy of these 
mysteries, I am instructed to say that 'The Mahedi' is the 
'Coming Phase,' and what I have thus been the first to witness 
has yet to develop to something out of all proportion to any- 
thing at present experienced or dreamt of. 

"But other matters of moment transpired too recondite to be 
lucidly recorded, and at last our new acquisition from the 
'Grand Man,' through mortal man retired, and bowed a silent 
adieu, and as I had done with other spirit-forms in their 
exeunt and exit, I, at the distance of a few inches only, watched 
'The Mahedi 's absorption into the body of the medium, and his 
gradual disappearance, till he was merged viewless into the 
boundless hereafter through this mortal gate of access to the 
mysteries of the other life. 

"But Dr. Kennedy was now invited to draw equally near and 
realize more closely with me the marvel of the separate identity 
of the spirit-form from the medium, and as we stood looking 
with all our soul upon the mighty fact of spirit birth from mor- 
tal man , Dr. Monck, still entranced, placed the lovely visitant 
from the inner world between us, and affording it each the sup- 
port of an arm, we advanced with our sweet spirit-companion 
some steps further into the room. Meanwhile, holding the 
hand of the spirit-arm that rested on mine, I felt the wrist, 
rjalm, fingernails; it was in every respect a living hand, 
answering to my touch, yielding to pressure, having natural 



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weight and substance, and all things pertaining to humanity, 
but it was damp and stone cold and the thought passed through 
my mind, how, like steam, first invisible, congealed, is then 
seen as cloudy vapor, which, precipitated, may finally take 
solid form in ice, this figure at my side had, by a somewhat 
analogous process, been rendered visible and tangible from the 
vital force, viewless and imponderable, of the medium, being 
under the chemistry, not yet understood of the higher life, 
Congealed into the nebulous condition instanced of the form's 
first appearance, further to solidify into the lovely creature we 
supported and wistfully beheld. But, not to theorize, I now 
come to the climax of the night's most wonderful phenomena. 

"When the form at last retired I was, as an extreme favor 
w T hich might cause the medium great prostration, permitted to 
accompany it and draw near with it slowly and cautiously, 
until I came again close up to Dr. Monck, as he, still entranced, 
stood forth full in view of all, waiting to receive back into him- 
self the marvelous aeon, phantasm or emanation that we must 
call angel or spirit. As it neared him the gossamer filament 
again came into view, its attenuated and vanishing point being, 
as before, toward the heart. By means of this subtle cord I 
noticed how this psychic figure seemed to be sucked back into 
the body of the medium. For like a water-spout at sea — funnel 
shaped — or sand column, such as I have seen in Bgypt, horizon- 
tal instead of vertical, the superior vital power of Dr. Monck 
seemed to absorb and draw in the spirit form, but so gradually 
that I was enabled closely to w T atch the process; for, leaning 
against and holding the medium, with my left arm at his back, 
and my left ear and cheek to his breast, his heart beating in a 
most violent and alarming way, I saw him receive back the 
lovely birth of the invisible spheres into his very person and, 
as I gazed for the last time on the sweet face of the disintegrat- 
ing spirit, within three or four inches of the features, I 
marked its fair aspect, eyes, hair, and delicate complexion, and 
kissed the dainty hand as, in process of absorption, it dissolved 
and saw the angel face disappear and fade, as it was drawn, 
positively, into the bosom of the medium. Gazing thus closely 
with awe and breathless interest, did I, therefore, w T atch the 
departure of our angel-friend, and the living gate and avenue 
of the medium's very self did X> with feelings indescribable, 
mark the steps of her progress to regain, through the living 
organism of Dr. Monck, her home in the viewless spheres." 

Hon. A. H. Dailey, Ex- Judge of Surrogates, and the senior 
partner of one of the best known and most high-class firms in 
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Bell and Crane — in an interview with Walter Howell, published 
in "The Light of Truth," Cincinnati, Ohio, July 7, 1894, in 
speaking of Dr. Monck says: "I met Dr. Francis W. Monck 
first at the residence of Mr. Fred Haslam, in Brooklyn, about 
1SS1, at a reception given to Dr. Monck by Mr. Haslam, and I 
became quite intimately acquainted with him. He was very 
poor, and a purse was made up and presented to him. He was 
seeking employment as a magnetic healer. I have witnessed 
some remarkable phenomena through his mediumship. His 
fame had, as a materializing medium in England, become 
known here. He gave a few seances in Brooklyn, but none for 
materialization. The phenomena usually consisted of raps, 
moving of heavy articles of furniture, and upon a few occasions 
of the passing of matter through matter. I will explain the 
remarkable experience we had with him when this was done. 
There w T ere probably a dozen people present, seated at a large 
extension table with Dr. Monck in the circle. By very heavy 
raps in answer to the alphabet it was announced that matter 
would be passed through matter, under strictly test conditions. 
Among the most sceptical was the late Mr. S. B. Nichols, who 
did not believe it could occur, and I certainly could not con- 
ceive how it could be done, and I never could. All explana- 
nations have not explained to my comprehension. To be sure 
there was no deception, Dr. Monck was firmly held by both 
wrists by four persons, two holding each wrist or hand. Mr. 
Nichols and myself each held a wrist and we did it so firmly 
that the doctor complained of being hurt. All the rest in the 
circle were directed to sing and one to turn down the light. In 
an instant Dr. Monck uttered a groan, we heard a rustling 
sound, and the lights were at once turned up. We were still 
holding Dr. Monck firmly, but his coat, vest, and cuffs were 
gone from his person. His vest was over the head and face of 
Mr. Nichols, his coat was on the floor. His cuffs, still unbut- 
toned, were in different places in the room. We did not release 
our hold until every one present was satisfied that we had held 
him securely, and when we did do so, the firmness of our grip 
left deep impressions upon the doctor's wrists and hands; one 
of his fingers was bleeding from the cut of a ring pressed into 
the flesh. 

Doctor Monck certainly had these articles on his person when 
we took hold of him. They were not torn or separated into 
parts when we again examined them as they were replaced upon 
his person. If anything seemingly set the laws of nature at 
defiance this did. I do not believe any person can be made to 
understand how those garments were removed; I have no doubt 



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but we shall some time understand it, but not in this world. 

The most satisfactory observation of the process of Materiali- 
zation I have ever witnessed was with Dr. Monck, It was 
during a call at the house of Dr. Blake in Brooklyn. There 
were five persons present. My wife, Dr. Monck and I were 
passing Dr. Blake's residence one evening and made a social 
call. As an amusement we sat for a few moments at a round 
table to see what manifestations would be given. A gas jet was 
dimly burning directly over the table. An exclamation from 
Dr. Monck called attention to the formation of a dense vapory 
mass close to his side. It was in incessant agitation. The hands 
of each sitter were on the table in plain view. We looked at it 
intently, when it disappeared with the quickness of lightning. 
While we were dicussing the strange phenomena it re-appeared , 
and commenced forming the shoulders, arms, and vapory body 
of a human being, and again as quickly disappeared. This was 
repeated a number of times in the plain view of all. The effect 
upon Dr. Monck was quite serious, and produced a hemorrhage 
of the lungs, the same as had followed his materializing seances 
in England. The serious result prevented, in so far as I have 
known, the efforts of Dr. Monck to give materializing seances 
in this country." 

Many persons do not believe that spirits are able to pass 
matter through matter as described above, but not less remark- 
able was the seance given in the G. A. R. Opera House in 
Shamokin, on the evening of Friday, Oct. 27th, 1894, by the 
two noted spiritual mediums, Ira T. Davenport and Mr. Fay. 
A. G. Marr, one of Shamokin's most prominent lawyers, and 
W. S. Guiterman, Editor of the ''Daily Dispatch" — and who, 
by the way, with the assistance of "Detective" Henry Welker 
and a few of Shamokin's lesser lights, undertook about a year 
ago, the difficult task of killing Spiritualism in Shamokin — 
were appointed a stage committee, whose duty it was to make a 
thorough examination of the cabinet used by the mediums, to 
see that the seance was given under strict test conditions and to 
detect fraud, if any could be found. The committee, by request 
of Mr. Fay, examined the cabinet thoroughly, which, by the 
way, was a plain wooden structure about 5x9 feet, standing on 
long iron castors, leaving a space of from 12 to 15 inches under 
the cabinet, sothat all persons sitting in the parquet could look 
under the cabinet throughout the entire cabinet seance — and 
reported that after thorough examination they found it to be a 
plain wooden structure very securely framed together and 
declared that they could discover no chance of fraud, so far as 
they could see. The mediums then took their seats, one in each 



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end of the cabinet, facing each other. By request, the 
mediums were tied by the committee, who afterward reported 
to the audience that the)' had tied them hand and foot, as 
thoroughly as it was possible to do, with their hands tied behind 
their backs in such a manner that it was impossible for them to 
slip their hands from the ropes. Musical instruments, consist- 
ing of two guitars, several tambourines, bells, and some other 
instrument, where placed between the two mediums. The 
doors in front of the cabinet were then closed; but as the middle 
door of the three was being closed the manager requested Mr. 
Guiterman to take a final look to see if the men were still in 
their positions. As he did so he received a slap on the face 
from a hand inside the cabinet and was also hit on the head 
with a tambourine, leaving the tambourine strung about his 
neck, some one remarking, "A cuff and a collar the first go 
off." 

Immediately after the doors were closed the instruments 
began to be rattled and banged about in the cabinet, the racket 
being kept up for several minutes, during which time hands of 
different sizes were shown from a small window in the middle 
door of the cabinet; on one occasion the arm of a female, bared 
to above the elbow, was thrust out of the window. No sooner 
had the sound of the instruments ceased than the doors of the 
cabinet were thrown open by some power from the inside and 
the committee found both mediums securely tied as before the 
doors had been closed. The attention of the committee, some 
time during the seance, was called to the fact that the locks 
were arranged in such a manner that it was impossible for the 
doors to be locked or unlocked except by physical contact, on 
the inside. After examining, Mr. Marr reported the fact to the 
audience. I make mention of this because it goes far towards 
showing that it could not have been done by the hands of the 
mediums, as it was utterly impossible for them to untie and tie 
in so short a time, or even for a confederate, could there have 
been one. 

The mediums being still tied, the doors were again closed and 
locked from the inside. On taking a final look to see if the 
mediums were still bound, before closing the middle door, Mr. 
Marr this time, got a slap with the hand from the cabinet, a 
tambourine also being strung about his neck. In about as 
short a time as it would take to tell it the doors were thrown 
open and both mediums stepped from the cabinet untied, 
leaving the ropes lying in the cabinet. They again entered the 
cabinet, when they were as quickly tied again, this time by 
some invisible power in the cabinet — as the committee reported 



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— more securely than they could possibly tie them, 

Mr. Guiterman was now ordered to take his seat in the 
cabinet between the mediums, facing the audience; a hand was 
placed upon each of the mediums and tied with ropes so as to 
detect any movement upon the part of either. The instruments 
were then placed upon Mr. Guiterman 's lap, the doors were 
closed and immediately all the instruments in the cabinet were 
being played, hands being continually shown at the window. 
"You will observe," says Mr. Marr, "that the hands are smaller 
than those which we tied." After a time the music ceased, the 
doors were opened and Mr, Guiterman sat with a tambourine 
strung about his neck and the three men were found securely 
bound. At Mr. Fay's request, Mr. Guiterman gave his 
experience while in the cabinet, in substance as follows: "I 
took my seat in the cabinet, as you saw, with the instruments 
upon my lap, tied to both men. Could detect no movement on 
the part of either; a dozen hands were passed over my face, 
patting me on the back. Hands were thrust into all my 
pockets. Every request I made while in the cabinet was 
granted. Do not think it possible for the men to do it." 

Mr. Marr was now requested to take his seat in the cabinet, 
the instruments were placed upon his lap, his hands were placed 
upon each of the mediums and tied. The doors were closed 
with the same result as when Mr. Guiterman was in the cabinet, 
except that Mr. G. got a slap on the head this time as the doors 
were being closed. Immediately after the noise of the instru- 
ments had ceased the doors were opened and Mr. Marr sat with 
a tambourine collar on, securely tied to both mediums. As the 
doors were locked in such a manner that they could only be 
unlocked from the inside by physical contact, and no move- 
ment could be detected by either committeeman on the part of 
the mediums, and both were found securely bound, it is evident 
that they were opened by some power other than the mediums. 
Mr, Marr reported his experience while in the cabinet, in sub- 
stance as follows: "I took my seat in the cabinet; the instru- 
ments were placed on my lap. I held both men; could detect 
no movement on the part of either. The instruments were all 
playing. At my request they played above me in the cabinet. 
Hands were passed over my face and thrust in every pocket. I 
was completely deluged both with music and with instruments." 
This latter statement created much laughter. On being asked 
by Mr. Fay if he thought that they had anything to do with 
the manifestations Mr. Marr said, "I am unable to explain how 
they could have had anything to do with the manifestations. 
It is entirely beyond my comprehension. I am amazed." Says 



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Mr. Fay: "What do you say, Mr. Guiterman?" "The same as 
Mr. Ma it," answered Mr. Guiterman. 

The mediums being still tied, the doors were again closed for 
a few seconds, then they were opened and Mr. Fay stepped 
from the cabinet untied and to show the audience that they 
took no part in untying themselves, Mr. Fay, in the presence of 
the committee, placed a teaspoonful of flour in each of Mr, 
Davenport's hands — which also could be seen by the audience — 
the committee pronounced Mr. Davenport securely bound, the 
doors were closed, and in less time than any mortal could have 
done it, even in the light (the cabinet was dark inside) Mr. D. 
was untied, and stepping from the cabinet in the presence of 
the committee and in full view of the audience, opened his 
hands, which were found to contain the flour placed there by 
Mr. Fay a few moments before. 

A DARK SBANCE. 

Mr. Fay now stated that a dark seance would be given, but 
as it required perfectly negative conditions — stating that as it 
required darkness for the photographer, so it required the same 
negative conditions for this phenomena — yet the seance would 
be given under strict test conditions, as light would be admitted 
every few T minutes, showing that there were no confederates 
and no deception. 

Two chairs were now placed upon the stage. The mediums 
seated themselves and were again securely bound with ropes, 
by the committee, their hands being tied behind them in such a 
manner that it was impossible for them to get loose without the 
aid of a confederate. The lights were extinguished for a few 
seconds after which they were turned on again, when both 
mediums were found untied. Mr. Fay now stated that they 
would again be tied, but not by the committee this time. The 
lights were extinguished and in much less time than the com- 
mittee could have done it, both mediums were again tied — by 
invisible agency this time — as Mr. Marr stated, more securely 
than they could bind them. 

And now came the most mystifying phenomena of the 
evening — the passing of matter through matter. The feet of 
both mediums were placed upon white sheets of paper. With 
a lead pencil Mr. Marr drew the outline of Mr. Fay's shoes, 
likewise Mr. Guiterman of the shoes of Mr. Davenport, so that 
it w r ould be impossible for them to move a foot in the dark with- 
out being detected. Mr. Marr was now requested to seal the 
knots which secured Mr. Fay to his chair. This was done with 
sealing wax, to the entire .satisfaction of both committeemen. 



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The lights were extinguished. Mr. Fay told Mr. Marr to 
request that his coat be removed, which he did. Immediately 
light was called for and Mr. Fay sat before the audience in his 
shirt sleeves, his coat still flying through the air. The com- 
mittee examined the knots and found them to be intact, with 
the seals unbroken, also examined the sheets of paper and found 
that the feet of neither had been moved. Mr. Guiterman was 
now requested to put Mr, Fay's coat upon himself, which he 
did, laying his own coat aside. The lights were extinguished 
and immediately called for again and Mr. Guiterman's coat was 
found upon the medium. The lights were again extinguished 
and in as quick time as before were turned on again, when 
Mr. Fay again sat in his shirt sleeves, while Mr. Guiterman's 
coat was seen flying through the air, landing on the foot lights. 

At this juncture two more committeemen— H. G. Steel and 
Harry Learn — were called to" the stage, the backs of the guitars 
were rubbed with a luminous oil, the instruments all being 
placed upon a table, the two last chosen committeemen stood, 
one at either end of the stage. Mr. Steel held the manager, 
Mr. Learn held Mr. Davenport, Messrs. Marr and Guiterman 
were seated at the table with Mr. Fay; Mr. Guiterman placed a 
foot upon both Mr. Fay's feet, his right hand was placed upon 
Mr. Fay's head, while Mr. Fay held tightly the wrist of the 
same, with both his hands, Mr. Marr also, from the other side, 
holding Mr. Fay, so that the least movement on his part might 
be detected. The lights were again extinguished, when again 
every instrument began moving about, playing, the illuminated 
guitars flying through the air at a terrific rate of speed, rising 
at the request of Mr. Marr to a distance of 8 or 10 feet in the 
air, now lower, then higher, passing back and forth, from one 
end of the stage to the other. 

Light was called for, when the two guitars were thrown, 
landing with great force, one at the feet of Mr. Steel, the other 
at the feet of Mr. Learn, The committee were asked to report. 
They did so, stating that they could detect no movement on the 
part of Mr. Fay, Mr. Davenport, or the manager. At this 
juncture Mr. Fay thanked the audience for their kind attention 
and made the following statement. ' 'There is no sleight of 
hand, no trickery, deception, nor confederates here tonight. 
We are not here to say what power has produced this, but leave 
each one to judge for themselves. Goodnight." The follow- 
ing appeared in the ''Daily Dispatch" of the next day : 

DAVENPORT AND FAY. 
* 'Davenport and Fay mystified their audience at the Opera 



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House last, evening by their wonderful and incomprehensible 
cabinet seances. Messrs. A. G. Marr and W. S. Guitennan 
were appointed a stage committee, and although they were tied 
in the cabinet with Davenport and Fay, they were unable to 
explain how the mysterious music and other manifestations 
were caused, when the performers were apparently bound." 

Why do you say "apparently bound, " Mr. Guiterman ? If 
so, then you apparently bound them. They were bound. But 
whence those hands that slapped you and Mr. Marr on the face 
and strung the tambourines on your necks, that stroked your 
faces, slapped you on the back, were thrust in your pockets, 
that granted your requests while in the cabinet, that locked the 
doors from the inside, w T hile the mediums were still bound, 
without a movement on their part, that tied the mediums even 
more secure in the dark and in a shorter time than you could 
even in the light, that show r ed themselves at the cabinet win- 
dow 7 , that untied the mediums in a much shorter time than you 
could, that removed the medium's coat and put your coat on 
the medium, w 7 ith his hands and feet securely bound, without 
breaking the seals upon the knots, that played all those instru- 
ments while flying through the air at such a terrific rate of 
speed ? 

You say, "We are unable to explain." Will you please let 
one w T ho, about a year ago, you called deluded, explain ? The 
hands that did all this were none other than the materialized 
hands of a band of immortals, who once passed through this 
earth life as you and I are doing and who are trying to demon- 
strate to the w r orld that "there is no such thing as death." You 
ask, "How is it done?" I answer, from the bodies of every 
person assembled there is constantly being thrown off through 
insensible perspiration, very finely attenuated particles of mat- 
ter, and by a chemical and electrical manipulation of these 
atoms, together w T ith other atoms that are constantly floating in 
space everywhere, the disembodied spirit is enabled to clothe 
itself with a real, tangible, material body. Mediums for mater- 
ialization are those who possess a certain amount of what 
spirits themselves term psycho-dynamic power. Through this 
force — existing in the medium — spirits attract from the atmos- 
phere these substances and particles. This process of mater- 
ialization we can see going on all around us in nature. Every 
atom that shall go to compose next year's fruit now exists some- 
where in the great ocean of matter that surrounds this world of 
ours. 

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and follow this process of materialization. As the little buds 
burst a thousand tiny cups may be seen holding up their dainty 
heads, drinking in the sunshine of heaven. Within each little 
cup, hidden from mortal view, and placed there by an all-wise 
and provident God, is a little magnetic, spiritual germ, attract- 
ing to itself atom after atom of matter, from out the great ocean 
of matter surrounding it, until finally you behold the mater- 
ialized, golden fruit. You partake of that fruit and your own 
immortal spirit w T ithin takes up those atoms of matter, and 
through a subtle process of spirit-chemistry of which, as yet, 
little is understood by mortals, is materialized the body that 
clothes your spirit; for remember, these bodies of ours are con- 
stantly dematerializing and would soon pass away w^ere it not 
that this process of materialization is constantly going on from 
the food w T e eat. This process of materialization is going on all 
around us in nature. Indeed, you cannot point to a single 
material thing in all the vast universe of God but what has thus 
been materialized. "Through the existence and force of spirit 
operating throughout the universe, substance has been wrought 
upon. Atoms, elements and forces are brought together by the 
operation of the law of attraction, and assume shape, come into 
the form of objective life, but nevertheless they are vitalized by 
that inherent and potent force which we call spirit. ' ' 

The whole w r orld is beginning to realize that what we term 
spiritual phenomena are real. Even that great enemy of Spirit- 
ualism, T. De Witt Talmage, sometime ago said in a sermon; 
i 'There is a class of phenomena that makes me think that the 
spiritual and the heavenly world may, after a while, make a 
demonstration in this w T orld wdiich will bring all moral and 
spiritual things to a climax. Now I am no spiritualist; but every 
intelligent man has noticed that there are strange and myster- 
ious things which indicate to him that perhaps the spiritual 
world is not so far off as sometimes we coujecture, and that after 
a while from the spiritual and heavenly world there may be a 
demonstration upon our world for its betterment. We call it 
magnetism, or we call it mesmerism, or we call it electricity, 
because we want some term to cover up our ignorance. I do 
not know w T hat it is, I never heard an audible voice from the 
other world. I am persuaded of this, however, that the veil 
between this world and the next is getting thinner and thinner, 
and that perhaps, after a while, at the call of God — not at the 
call of the Davenport Brothers, or Andrew Jackson Davis — some 
of the old spiritual warriors; some of the spirits of other days, 
mighty for God — a Joshua, or a David, or a Paul — may come 
down and help us in this battle against unrighteousness. ' ' 



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Should Joshua, David, Paul, and all the good men that ever 
lived from Adam to the present day come back to earth, the 
Rev. Talmage and his like would denounce their return as the 
works of the orthodox devil. Like the brethern of Dives of 
old, "neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the 
(lead. 1 ' 

Yes, dear reader, spirit-return is an established fact; materiali- 
zation of spirit forms is a fact, and though there are frauds in 
the world who would deceive us, yet there are hundreds of 
good, genuine mediums. The Church may call spiritualism 
witchcraft, enchantment, divination, sorcery, dealing with 
familar spirits, or whatever they please. I have shown very 
clearly that every one of the phases of mediumship that are 
bestowed upon and practiced by our mediums to-day, were held 
and practiced by God's own children in Bible times. These 
different phases of mediumship are gifts from God. If a man 
or a woman has the gifts of Clairvoyance, Seership, Clair- 
audience, Giving of Tests, Inspirational Speaking, Divining, 
Healing, Speaking of Languages, Trance, Mind Reading, or 
any other of the many gifts of the spirit, they can no more 
help having those gifts than they can help breathing. 

The apostle Paul, in his letter to the Corinthians, 14:1 says: 
''Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts." In the 12th 
chapter we read; "Now concening spiritual gifts, brethern, I 
would not have you ignorant. " x ~ * * Now there are 
diversities of gifts, but by the same Spirit. * . * * But 
the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit 
withal. For to one is given by the spirit, the word of wisdom; 
to another the word of knowledge by the same spirit; to 
another faith by the same spirit; to another the working of 
miracles; to another prophesy; to another discerning of spirits; 
to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpreta- 
tion of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the self- 
same spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." 

The Church has ever been ready to strangle any new truth, 
but her attitude toward Spiritualism is fast changing wherever 
it has been established and the time is coming when every 
church door will be opened for the utterance of its truths. The 
Church charges spiritualists with being indifferent to the truths 
of the Bible. This is a mistake. We accept all the spiritual 
facts of the Bible and stand by them, but we cannot accept the 
Bible as a whole in the sense that the Church does, knowing 
that it has its mistakes and its contradictions. It is not the 
sacred books of the world that are inspired, but t]ae truths that 
they mirror forth. All the facts of Modern Spiritualism are 



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established by the Bible. Ancient and Modern Spiritualism run 
on parallel lines; we cannot accept the old and ignore the new. 
The Church not only ignores the foundation of her faith — spirit 
manifestations and power — denying the possibility of the signs 
which Christ himself said should follow those that believe in 
His name, but she pronounces the wide-spread spirit manifesta- 
tions to be of the devil. Is it not a significant fact that the 
Church does not possesss these gifts to-day, but that every one 
of them are possessed by those Spiritualists whom the Church 
to-day — if the laws of the country were such — would torture at 
the stake as watches, and all in the name of Christianity. 

I have had persons say to me, Well, suppose Spiritualism is 
true, what good can it do? I would say that it has demonstrat- 
ed what the Church for ages has been teaching, but has failed 
to prove — that man is immortal. Spiritualism has done more 
than all else combined to sweep back the tide of materialism 
which but a few years ago was sweeping over Europe and Amer- 
ica, The Bible says "Add to your faith knowledge." The 
Church believes in man's immortality, but as soon as one of its 
members begins to seek for a knowledge of immortality they 
are told that it is sinful to "pry into the hidden things of God." 
There are millions of people to-day who know that spirit return 
is a fact, while thousands more believe it. Spiritualism robs 
death of its terrors, leads the thirsty to living waters, and 
lightens the burdens of weary pilgrims, and shows that death is 
but a beautiful transition or birth into a better life. It is the 
most joy-inspiring of religions, as it gives us back our loved 
and lost and proves the glorious life that awaits us. Spiritual- 
ism is built upon demonstrated facts. 

Dr. J. P. Newman, the eloquent Methodist Episcopal Bishop, 
said some time ago, in a sermon delivered at a funeral, 561 
Madison Ave., New York: "The two worlds met in Bible 
times. The communications were as real then between earth 
and heaven, as between New York and London to-day. From 
Adam till John of Patmos there was frequent intercourse 
between those who had gone and those who were left behind." 
Angels were companions of Daniel in the lion's den ; they 
conversed with Mary; they delivered Peter from prison; they 
visited Cornelius the Roman Centurion. Celestial visions were 
given to Isaiah and the prophets, to Paul and the apostles, to 
Stephen and the martyrs, while Samuel, and Moses and Elias 
were returned to earth. And why should we suppose that there 
is less interest in heaven for earth now than in the glorious 
past! We have the inspired record of the return of five persons 
to our earth, three of whom entered the spirit-world through 



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the portals of the grave." 

"And there was another who was born here, and went to that 
spirit-land and returned to us, and remained with us from June 
44, A. D., till June 64, A. D., a period of twenty years; and six 
years after he made this declaration public. He said : "I was 
caught up into the third heaven." This is levitation as taught 
in I Kings 18:12; Ezak. 3:14, in Acts 8:39-40. He went not only 
to the place of departed spirits, but to Heaven, where he heard 
unspeakable words. 

Do you say that if only one of our own race and time would 
go and return and witness to us it would be sufficient? Most 
lawyers are satisfied with one good witness. The law is that 
two good witnesses are sufficient to confirm a fact, but here are 
eight — Samuel, Moses, Elias, Christ, and four apostles. These 
eight persons are as good as eight hundred. 

But do the communications between the two worlds continue 
to this day? Let us rise to the sublimity and purity of the 
great Bible truth, and on this day of sorrow console our hearts 
therewith. It was the opinion of Wesley that Swedenborg was 
visited by the spirits of his departed friends. Dr. Adam Clarke 
believed that the departed spirits returned to earth. 

The sainted John Wesley remarked in one of his sermons 
( Vol. 2-470-1 ) : "And how much will it add to the happiness of 
those spirits who are already discharged from the body, that 
they are permitted to minister to those whom they have left 
behind? An indisputable proof of this we have in the twenty- 
second chapter of the Revelation. When the apostle fell down 
to worship the glorious spirit which he seems to have mistaken 
for Christ, he told him plainly, "I am of thy fellow servants, 
the prophets; not God, not an angel, but a human spirit. And 
in how many ways may they 'minister to the heirs of salva- 
tion V " 

Conscious of and rejoicing in the sweet and holy influences 
of God's ministering angels, inspired the late Bishop Simpson 
(Methodist) to say in one of his eloquent sermons : "The very 
grave itself is a passage into the beautiful and glorious. We 
have laid our friends in the grave, but they are around us. The 
little children who sat upon our knee, into whose eyes we look 
with love, whose little hands have clasped our neck, on whose 
cheek we have imprinted the kiss — we can almost feel the 
throbbing of their hearts to-day. They have passed from us, 
but where are they? Just beyond the line of the visible. And 
the fathers and mothers who educated us — that directed and 
comforted us — where are they but just beyond the line of the 



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visible? The associates of our lives, that walk along life's path- 
way, those with whom we took sweet council, and who dropped 
from our side — where are they but just beyond us? — not far 
away, but now it may be very near us. Is there anything to 
alarm us in this thought ? No. It seems to me sometimes that 
when my head is on the pillow there comes whispers as of joy, 
which drop into my heart thoughts of the sublime and beauti- 
ful and glorious, as though some angel's wing passed over my 
brow, and some dear one sat by my pillow and communed with 
my heart to raise my affection toward the other and better 
world. The invisible is not dark, it is glorious. Sometimes 
the veil becomes so thin it seems to me I can almost see the 
bright forms through it, and my bending ear can almost hear the 
voices of those who are singing their melodious strains. Oh, 
there is music all around us, though the ear of man hear it not, 
there are glorious forms all about us, though in the busy scenes 
of life we recognize them not. The veil of the future will soon 
be lifted, and the invisible shall appear.' ' 

We have shown, dear reader, that the various phases of 
mediumship as practiced by mediums to-day were possessed and 
practiced by God's own people in Bible times. The same laws 
that governed then govern to-day; what was possible then is 
possible to-day. As to whether spiritualism is true or not, we 
would say, investigate honestly, casting all prejudice aside and 
as "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" I have no fear 
of any one rejecting it who will investigate as I have done. 
There are frauds everywhere: in the Church, in State, in busi- 
ness and social life, and Spiritualism is no exception. 

While writing there lays before me a book entitled "Crimes 
of Preachers, ' ' giving an account of over two thousand crimes 
of every description under heaven, committed by preachers 
since 1886, giving the names, crime commmitted, place of resi- 
dence, trial and sentence of each. I would not for a moment 
think of condemning Christianity because of these frauds, 
neither should we condemn Spiritualism because now and then 
there are to be found those who would deceive and practice 
fraud. As there are many who would like to investigate, I 
have thought best to give here the following rules for investi- 
gation, which I copy from "Religion of Spiritualism," by Rev. 
Samuel Watson, as copied by him from the "London Spirit- 
ualist." 

HOW TO INVESTIGATE— HOW TO FORM CIRCLES 
AND DEVELOP MEDIUMSHIP. 
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by forming circles in their own homes, with no spiritualist or 
professional medium present. Should no results be obtained 
on the first occasion, try again with other sitters. One or more 
persons possessing medial powers without knowing it are to be 
found in nearly every household. 

''Let the room be of a comfortable temperature, but cool 
rather than warm — let arrangements be made that nobody shall 
enter it and that there shall be no interruption for one hour 
during the sitting of the circle. 

"Let the circle consist of four, five, or six individuals, about 
the same number of each sex. Sit around an uncovered wooden 
table, with all the palms of the hands in contact with the top 
surface. Whether the hands touch each other or not is of 
usually no importance. Any table will do, just large enough to 
accommodate the sitters. The removal of a hand from the table 
for a few seconds does no harm, but when one of the sitters 
breaks the circle by leaving the table, it sometimes, but not 
always, considerably delays the manifestations. 

"Before the sitting begins, place some pointed lead pencils 
and some sheets of clean writing-paper on the table to write 
down any communication that may be obtained. 

"People who do not like each other should not sit in the 
same circle, for such a want of harmony tends to prevent mani- 
festations, except with well-developed physical mediums; it is 
not yet known why. Belief or unbelief has no influence on 
the manifestations, but an acrid feeling against them is fre- 
quently found to be a weakening influence. 

"Before the manifestations begin, it is well to engage in 
general conversation or in singing, and it is best if neither be 
of a frivolous nature. 

* 'The first symptoms of the invisible power at work is often 
a feeling like a cold wind sweeping over the hands. The first 
manifestations will probably be table-tiltings or raps. 

' 'When motions of the table or sounds are produced freely, to 
avoid confusion, let one person only speak; he should talk to 
the table as to an intelligent being. Let him tell the table that 
three tilts or raps mean 'Yes,' one means 'No,' and two mean 
'Doubtful,' and ask whether the arrangement is understood. If 
three signals be given in answer, then say: If I speak the letters 
of the alphabet slowly, will you signal every time I come to the 
letter you want, and spell us out a message? Should three sig- 
nals be given, set to work on the plan proposed, and from this 
time an intelligent system of communication is established. 



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" Afterward the question should be put, 'Are we sitting in the 
right order to get the best manifestations?' Probably some 
members of the circle will then be told to change seats with 
each other and the signals will afterward be strengthened. Next 
ask. "Who is the medium?' When the intelligence asserts itself 
to be related or known to anybody present, well chosen ques- 
tions should be put to test the accuracy of the statements, as the 
alleged spirits are found to exhibit all the virtues and all the 
failures of humanity." 

"A medium is usually a person of an impulsive, affectionate 
and genial nature, and very sensitive to mesmeric influences. 
Mediums are of both sexes, 

1 'The best manifestations are obtained when the medium and 
all the members of the circle are strongly bound together by 
the affections, and are thoroughly comfortable and happy. 
Family circles, w T ith no strangers present, are usually the best, 

"Possibly at the first sitting of a circle symptoms of other 
forms of mediumship than tilts or raps may make their appear- 
ance, while by sitting regularly two or three times a week the 
manifestations will rapidly develop. 

"Among the varied phases of phenomena already observed 
by investigators, may be noted the following : Movement of 
physical objects, both with and without contact with the sitters; 
direct writing, drawing, and voices; entrancement, trance and 
inspirational utterances, temporary materialization, involuntary 
writing, healing; visions, impressions, as well as many phenom- 
ena observed in the study of mesmerism. 

"Possibly symptoms of other forms of mediumship, such as 
trance or clairvoyance, may develop; the better class of mes- 
sages, as judged by their religious and philosophical merits, 
usually accompany trance and clairvoyant manifestations, rather 
than the more objective phenomena. After the manifestations 
are obtained, the observers should not go to the other extreme, 
and give way to an excess of credulity, but should believe no 
more about them or the contents of the messages than they 
are forced to do by undeniable proof. ' ' 

We are often asked the question, What do the Spiritualists 
believe ? We would say that there are different shades of belief 
among those who believe in spirit return, and while it is impos- 
sible for spiritualists to have any set form of belief or creed, so 
long as the truth is progressive, yet we believe that the majority 
of spiritualists could submit to the following articles, especially 
those in Christian countries : 



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ist— We believe in one God, the Soul and Ruler of the Uni- 
verse, a conscious entity dwelling in the universe, as its 
master. That God is a law unto himself and that all matter 
obeys His will through natural law. 

2nd — We believe in the Divine mission and work of Christ and 
that the Christ principle which came from God the Father, 
and dwelt in Jesus, is to save the world, but that no man 
can be saved through Christ unless he takes into his life the 
Christ principle, and that we are saved by what we live, not 
by what we believe. 

3rd — We believe in future rewards and punishments and that 
the only way to escape the consequences of our wrong- 
doing is by a genuine heart-felt repentance, followed by the 
undoing of our wrongs to the best of our ability, and the 
living out of the Christ principle in our lives, and that "As 
the tree falleth so shall it lie;" that is, that we enter the 
spirit-world no better, nor no worse than we leave this 
world and that we begin life there just where we leave it 
off here, but that the path of progression is ever open to all 
of God's children, both here and in the spirit-world, who 
may have an earnest desire to better their condition, and 
that all punishment is for correction. 

4th — We believe man — all mankind — to be literal sons and 
daughters of God and the soul of man to be a spark of 
divinity, and as such it is immortal and undying, and that 
man, while on the earth plane, is a three-fold being, com- 
posed of a material body, the Soul, or Kgo, and a Spiritual 
body, the two latter surviving the former, for which they 
will never have further use. 

5th — We believe that man is sown, at birth into this world, in 
corruption, but is raised at death, — birth into the spiritual 
world — in incorruption. That he "is sown in dishonor, 
raised in glory." "Sown in weakness, raised in power." 
"Sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body." 

6th — We believe that the only veil between this and the spirit- 
world are these coarse material bodies of ours, and that 
under favorable conditions the spirits of the so-called dead 
can come back to earth's children and communicate sweet 
messages of love to them, and that by the chemical and 
electrical manipulation of atoms they can mould a material 
body in a few minutes, which by the ordinary process of 
nature would require years to produce, and that they can 
as quickly dematerialize it again. 



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7th — We believe that heaven and hell are conditions and that 
the only way to gain heaven in the great hereafter is to 
have heaven in you while here, and this we believe can 
only be done by living out the "Christ-life" in our lives. 
The humble Nazarene once said, "The kingdom of heaven 
is within you." So we say; that either the kingdom of 
heaven or of hell is in each of us, and we will carry either 
the one or the other of those kingdoms with us into the 
spirit life, and that we make our own heaven or hell the 
same in the spirit life as we do here. 

8th — We believe that the only sanction of the doctrine of eter- 
nal punishment to be found in the Bible is in the mistrans- 
lation of the Greek word Aion, in Matt. 25:46. "And 
these shall go away into everlasting punishment (Greek, 
Kolasin Aionion), but the righteous into life eternal." The 
word Kolasin is derived from kolazoo, which in the Greek 
signifies: 1 — To cut off, as lopping off branches of trees; to 
prune. 2 — To restrain, to repress. 3 — To chastise, to pun- 
ish. 

That an Aion is a limited time is proven by the fact that it 
can be made plural, and no multiple of a limited time can be 
synonymous with eternity. The following are a few of the 
many passages where the word in its many forms appears, in 
none of which can it be used in the sense of eternal : 

"The children of this world (Aionos) marry and are given in 
marriage." Luke 20:34. 

"But they that shall be counted worthy to obtain that world 
(Aionos) and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry 
nor are given in marriage." Luke 20:35. 

"And be not conformed to this world. " (Aioni). Rom. 12:2. 

"Where is the disputers of this world." (Aainos). I Cor. 1:20. 

"Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet 
not knowing the wisdom of this world (Aionos) nor of the 
princes of this world (Aionos) that come to nought." I Cor. 2:6. 

"Which God ordained before the world (Aionon) unto our 
glory." I Cor. 2:7. 

"Which none of the princes of this world (Aionos) knew." 
I Cor. 2:8. 

"If any among you seem to be wise in this world (Aioni) let 
him become a fool that he may be wise." I Cor. 3:18. 

"In whom the God of this world (Aionos) hath blinded the 
minds of them which believe not." II Cor. 4:4. 



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"That he might deliver us from the present evil world." 
(Aionos). Gal. 1:4. 

"Charge them that are rich in this world (Aioni) that they 
be not high-minded." I Tim. 6:17. 

"For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present 
evil world." (Aiona). II Tim, 4:10. 

"We should live soberly, righteously and godly, in this pres- 
ent world," (Aioni). Titus 2:12. 

"Which God ordained before the world." (Aionon). I Cor. 
2:7. 

"Not only in this world (Aioni) but in that which is to 
come." Eph. 1:21. 

"The harvest is the end of the world (Aionas) and the 
reapers are the angels. " Matt. 13:39. 

"So shall it be in the end of this world." (Aionos). Matt. 
13:40. 

In the above passages we have the Greek word Aion in its 
various forms, rendered 'world' no less than seventeen times. 
We might give many more where it has been translated 'age' or 
'ages,' as in the following: "That in the ages (Aiosi) to come 
he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kind- 
ness toward us through Christ Jesus." — Eph. 2:7. "Even the 
mystery which hath been hid from ages (Aionon) and from 
generations, but now is made manifest to his saints." — Col. 1:26. 

Words of like meaning may be substituted one for the other 
without destroying the sense of a passage. Apply this test to 
any one of the above passages of Scripture, using instead of 
'world' or 'ages' the words 'eternal,' 'eternity,' or 'eternities,' 
and the sense is at once destroyed. If an Aion is a limited 
time, as the above passages prove, then the punishment of the 
wicked may be for a limited time. I have given the above be- 
cause it has always been the teaching of the Church that the 
event called death changes the attitude of God from that of a 
kind and loving Father to a cruel, vindictive being, and that 
no matter how sorry a soul may be for the sins of this life and 
however much it may desire to rise out of its fallen condition, 
God's favor is forever withdrawn from that soul after the 
change called death. 

My dear reader, spiritualism knows no such God as this, the 
God we worship being all love, all goodness, whose love is 
infinite, extending to all his creatures both here and in the 
spirit world. In the last quarter of a century the fires of hell 
have been extinguished so that a hell of "fire and brimstone" 



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has become — as the Rev. Charles H. Fitzwilliam once said in a 
sermon on Hell — "a back number," and with it that other twin 
doctrine and blasphemy against the character of a loving 
Heavenly Father — eternal torment — is doomed to oblivion. 
That there are spirits in the hells of the spirit world, who have 
suffered for a long time and who, perhaps, may remain there 
for ages to come, there is uot the shadow of a doubt in the 
mind of the writer, but it is not because death has changed the 
attitude of God toward that soul, or that his favor is withdrawn, 
but because that soul is satisfied to remain in its fallen state and 
has no desire to better its condition, and as long as a soul pre- 
fers hell to heaven even God himself cannot make a heaven 
for such a soul, and if He, in his loving kindness should, it 
would to that soul be another hell, because its likes and dislikes 
are such as to unfit it for the enjoyment of holy companionship, 
and it would deliberately gravitate to its own place again, 
where it could surround itself with such companions as are best 
suited to itself, who have the same likes, dislikes, and evil 
cravings. And I want to say that if every soul could be brought 
to understand that as naturally as water finds its own level, so 
will every spirit on leaving the body gravitate to its own place 
and be drawn to those who are in every respect as they are, that 
the thought of the horror of such a soul would stimulate one 
to a course of right living here. 

I am aware that some will say that this picture of hell is 
rather an orthodox one. Let it be so, the picture has not been 
overdrawn. Every honest spiritualist knows that this has been 
the teaching of many spirits, who have been permitted to come 
back to us and tell of their wretched condition in spirit life, 
while others again have told us that they have seen their mis- 
takes, and with the earnest desire have progressed away from 
their former beliefs and lives and are now happy. I would like 
to say here to those who are now developing, or seeking to de- 
velop mediumship, that unless you are living pure lives it were 
far better that you never became mediums, for as like attracts 
like, so you must expect to draw to yourselves just such spirits 
as you yourselves are. What spiritualism needs today is pure 
mediums, and this applies alike to all spiritualists, whether 
mediums or not. There are many today who claim to be spirit- 
ualists who are anything but spiritual. 

For such I have only pity. True spiritualism spiritualizes. 
Many who are spiritualists in name try to tear down all that is 
good in Christianity. To me Christianity is a blessed faith, and 
to take the Christ spirit out of this world, I would want to leave 
it myself. Do away with the Bible if you will; close up the 



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churches, let all the best minds in the world come together and 
establish a code of morals for the government of men, and that 
code of morals would be nothing more or less than Christianity 
in its broadest sense. Christianity, if lived out, cannot be im- 
proved upon. If every one in this world of ours was a good, 
pure, genuine, whole-souled Christian we would need no locks, 
bolts or bars, and this world of ours would be transformed into 
a heaven, for then every man wwild acknowledge every other 
man as his brother and God as father of us all. That person 
who lives the Christ-life is a -truly happy person here and his 
happiness in the hereafter is assured. 

The following is a partial list of eminent persons who have 
investigated the phenomena generally known as psychical, or 
spiritualistic, and have become convinced of the truth of spirit 
return : 

SCIENTISTS. 

Alfred R. Wallace, the Discoverer of Evolution. 

Dr. Lockart Robertson, Editor Journal of Medical Science. 

Cromwell Varley, Electrician, F. R. S., C. E. 

Dr. William Gregory, F. R. S. E. 

Herman Goldsmith, Astronomer and Physicist. 

W. F. Barrett, F. R. E., Professor of Physics in the Royal Col- 
lege of Science, Dublin. 

Dr. Ashburner, 

Dr. U. Hitchman, Physiologist and Physicist, 

Wm. Crookes, Chemist. 

Alex Von Humboldt, 

Prof. N. D. Wagner, Geologist, University of St, Petersburg. 

Prof. A. Butlerov, Chemist, University of St. Petersburg. 

Dr. Hoeffle, Author of Historical Chemistry. 

Prof. Nees Von Esenbeck, Prest. Royal Academy of Sciences, 
Breslau, Germany. 

Dr. J. Elliottson, F. R. S., some time Prest. of the Royal Med. 
and Chir. Soc, London. 

Camille Flammarion, Astronomer. 

Prof. De Morgan, Prest. Math. Soc, London. 

Prof. William Denton, Geologist. 

Dr. Vladimer Dahl of St. Petersburg Academy of Science. 

Dr. Herbert Mayo, F. R. S. 

Prof. F. Zollner of Leipsic, author of Transcendental Physics. 

Prof. Worthen, State Geologist of Illinois. 

Dr. Maximillian Perty, Prof. Nat. Science,, Berne, Switzerland. 

Prof. Robert Hare, Chemist. 

Prof. J. J. Mapes, Agricultural Chemist. 



In the Bible ? 51 

Prof. W. D. Gunning, Geologist. 

Prof. J. R. Buchanan, Anthropologist. 

Baron von Reichenbach, Physiologist. 

The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, F. R. S., Prest. R. A. S. 

PHYSICIANS. 

Dr. Jos. Haddock, England Dr. Julius Frauenstadt, Germ' ny 

Dr. J. J. Groth Wilkinson Dr. Grunhut, Buda-Pesth 

Dr. J. M. Gully Dr. Gray Sexton, London 

Dr. Stanhope Templeman, Dr. G. W. Langedor, Mannheim 

Speer, Edinburg. Dr. J. M. Peebles 

PHILOSOPHERS AND METAPHYSICIANS. 

Prof. S. B. Brittan, Moral and Mental Philosophy. 

P. Yowkevitsch, Prof. Phil., University of St. Petersburg. 

A. Bronson Alcott. 

J. H. von Fichte, the Emerson of Germany. 

Dr. Franz Hoffman, Prof. Phil., Wurtzburg, Germany. 

Dr. Robert Freise, Breslau. 

Narson E. Senior, Prof, of Political Economy, Oxford, England. 

Prof. W. E. Weber of Cottingen. 

Prof. G. F. Fechner, 

EMINENT STATESMEN AND PHILANTHROPISTS. 

Ex-Gov. A. P. Tallmage of M. Francois Guizot, author and 

Wisconsin. Statesman. 

Ex-Vice President B. F. Wade Leon Favre, Consul General of 
Hon. Joshua R. Giddings of France. 

Ohio. Jules Favre, his brother 

Abraham Lincoln Senator Fitch, of Indiana 

Ex- Vice President Henry Wil- Senator Harris, of Louisiana 

son. Senator Stewart, of Nevada 

Victor Hugo Hon. Robert Dale Owen, Late 

Ex-President Andrew Johnson Foreign Minister 
George Thompson Hon. N. P. Banks, of Mass. 

Guisippi Garibaldi Senator Howard, of Michigan 

Louis Kossuth Hon. G. W. Julian, of Indiana 

William Lloyd Garrison Senator Simons, of R. I. 

Senator Sprague, of R. I. Senator Anthony, of R. I. 

DISTINGUISHED LITERARY AND ARTISTIC 

CELEBRITIES. 

Trowbridge, the Artist Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall 

Florence Marryatt T. Adolphus Trollopp, the pop- 

Wm. and Mary Howitt ular Novelist. 



5«2 ff&s Spiritualism Any Foundation 

Gerald Massey, the Poet Hiram Powers, famous Sculptor 

W. M. Thackeray Robert Chambers 

Sir Edward Lytton and Sou Mrs. Eliz'b'th Barrett Browning 
Epes Sargent Captain R. F. Burton, African 

Mark M. (Brick) Pomerov Traveler and Author 

Hamlin Garland, Literary. 

CROWNED HEADS, NOBILITY, ETC, 

Queen Victoria, of England Sir W. Travelyn 
Emperor Alexander, of Russia Countess Caithness 
Emp'r Louis Napoleon, France Sir T. Willshire 
Prince Wittgenstein, Lt. Gen., Lady Cowper 
Aid-de-camp to Emperor of Sir Charles Isham, Bart 
Russia Sir Charles Napier 

Hon. Alexander AskakofT,Rus- Bishop Clark, of R. I. 

sian Imperial Councilor, St. Col. E, B. Wilbraham, of the 
Petersburg, Russia. English Army. 

Baron von Dirkinck, of Holm- Judge Dailey, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

feld Holstein Judge J. W. Edmunds 

Le Compte de Bullett, of Paris Judge Ladd 
Lord Lindsay Judge Lawrence 

Lord Adare Sergeant E. W. Cox ] 

Lord Lyndhurst H. D. Jenckens ( 

Duke of Leuchtenburg, Germ' y H. D. Durphy 
Hon. A. B. Richmond, Mead- Lord Dunraven J 

ville, Pa. English Barristers 

Hon. W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska Hon. A. B. French, Clyde, O. 
Hon. L. V. Moulton, Grand Rapids, Mich, 

TESTIMONY OF EMINENT MEN. 

Lord Brougham — "Even in the most cloudless skies of skep- 
ticism I see a rain-cloud, if it be no bigger than a man's hand: 
it is Modern Spiritualism." 

Camille Flammarion — "I do not hesitate to affirm my convic- 
tion, based on personal examination of the subject, that any 
scientific man who declares the phenomena, denominated 'mag- 
netic' 'somnambulic,' 'mediumistic,' and others not yet ex- 
plained by .science, to be 'impossible,' is one who speaks 
without knowing what he is talking about." 

A. R. Wallace — "We are justified in taking the facts of 
Modern Spiritualism (and with them the spiritual theory as the 
only tenable one) as being fully established. Its whole course 
and history proclaimed it to be neither imposture nor delusion, 
nor survial of the beliefs of savages, but a great and all-impor- 
tant truth." 



In the Bible ? 53 

The London Dialectical Committee report — "That sounds of 
a varied character, apparently proceeding from articles of furni- 
ture, the floor, and walls, occur without being produced by 
muscular action or mechanical contrivance, or adequate exer- 
tion of muscular force by those present, and frequently without 
contact of any person. That these sounds and movements often 
occur in the manner asked for by some person present, and 
* * * * answer questions, and spell out coherent 
communications. ' ' 

J. H. Fichte, the German Philosopher and Author — "I feel it 
my duty to bear testimony to the great fact of Spiritualism. 
No one should keep silent. ' ' 

Prof. De Morgan, Late President of the Mathematical Society 
of London — "I have both seen and heard, in a manner that 
should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual, which 
cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation 
by imposture, coincidence, or mistake." 

Dr. Robert Chambers— "I have for many years known that 
these phenomena are real." 

Prof. Challis, the late Plumerian Prof, of Astronomy at Cam- 
bridge — "I have been unable to resist the large amount of testi- 
mony to such facts, which has come from many independent 
sources, and from a vast number of witnesses. 
In short, the testimony has been so abundant and consentane- 
ous, that either the facts must be admitted to be such as are 
reported, or the possibility of certifying facts by human testi- 
mony must be given up." — Clerical Journal, June, 1862. 

Prof. Hare, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pa. — 
"Far from abating my confidence in the inferences respecting 
the agencies of the spirits of deceased mortals, in the manifes- 
tations of which I have given in my work, I have had even 
more striking evidences of that agency than those given in the 
work in question." 

William Crookes, F. R. S., etc. — "That a hitherto unrecog- 
nized form of Force — whether it be called physical or psychi- 
cal is of little consequence — is involved in this occurrence is 
not with me a matter of opinion, but of absolute knowledge." 
Professors Tornebom and Bdland, the Swedish Physicists — 
"Only those deny the realty of spiritual phenomena who have 
never examined them; but profound study alone can explain 
them." 

Baron Carl DuPrel (Munich)— "This intelligence can read, 
write and understand the language of human beings, frequently 



54 Has Spiritualism Any Foundation 

such as is unknown to the medium. It is no use whatever to 
fight against this proposition." 

Dr. Lochkart Robertson — "The writer can no more doubt the 
physical manifestations of so-called Spiritualism than he would 
any other fact." 

William Howitt — "Spiritualism having reached its millions of 
adherents, is now beyond the influence of opponents. ' ' 

Thackeray — "It is all very well for you, who have probably 
never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but 
had you seen what I have seen, you would hold a different 
opinion." 

Rev. M. J. Savage — "That he is in possession of a respectable 
body of facts that he does not know how to explain, except on 
the theory that he is dealing with some invisible intelligence." 

Prof. Elliott Coues — "In full view,a few inches from my face, 
I distinctly saw the pencil write 'of itself;' and finish the last 
word or two of a sentence which straggled over most of the 
slate. That I saw it, just as described, is simply true." 

Judge A. H. Dailey, of Brooklyn, N. Y — "I have seen inde- 
pendent slate- writing. Mr. Kellar and Mr. Herrmann, the 
magicians, many criticise this phenomena as they see fit, but I 
undertake to say that it is absolutely impossible for them to imi- 
tate it, or produce anything like it under the same conditions. 
If they will come here and allow me to take my own slates and 
put them down on that table, one on top of the other, a piece 
of slate-pencil between the two, the slates held together with 
my hand on top — if they will write on those slates while I am 
holding them there I will give them $1000. But they must 
not touch them. I have seen slate writing done under such 
conditions. Once the writing was over the name of my father, 
and another time over the signature of a deceased sister of my 
wife's. There were two separate hand writings. My father had 
been dead for about thirty years and died a long distance from 
where this phenomenon presented itself. My wife's sister had 
been dead about fifteen years, and it was utterly impossible for 
the medium in this case to have known the name of either. 
Then I have seen a hand produced in broad sunlight without the 
aid of a cabinet, in a room containing five windows, the blinds 
being open. On that occasion I was sitting at the table with 
two other persons. I have seen a naked hand without an arm 
to it produced before me. In the presence of five persons I 
have seen unexpectedly, right close by my side, without any 
cabinet or any preparation, or any idea that there was going to 
be anything like the phenomenon presented while we were sit- 



/;/ the Bible f 55 

ting at a table. I have seen the form of human beings slowly 
shape itself from a sort of etherized substance of lightish color 
until it took on the form of a person, with a body, limbs and 
head, finally disappearing with the rapidity of lightning. I have 
.seen that done five times, once in the evening when the light 
was sufficiently bright to read the newspaper. Spiritualists 
claim, and I think with good reason, that if you take everything 
that we denominate the phenomena of spiritualism out of the 
Bible it would cease to be a religious book." — From Philadel- 
phia Press, Sunday, July 30th, 1893* 

Forty years ago the first spirit raps were heard in the home of 
the Fox family at Hydesville N. Y, Since that time the growth 
of modern Spiritualism has been phenomenal, considering the 
opposition it has had to contend against. Scientists treated it 
with bitter contempt. Learned doctors tried to expose it; D.D's 
condemned it; not many of the learned and wise believed in it 
but, like all other great truths, it has found its way into the 
hearts of those who were not too proud to accept it, clad as it 
was in the garb of an outcast. Since then it has spread through- 
out the whole world, until it has ramified all classes of society. 
''From peasant cots to kingly thrones, from beggars to million- 
airs, and from lowly artisans to kings, queens and emperors, 
extends an unbroken chain of believers in this philosophy, this 
faith, this religion of Spiritualism." Many are enemies to 
spiritualism because they are ignorant as to its strength and 
standing and know nothing as to its teachings. There are, as 
before stated, about ten million Spiritualists in the United 
States, maintaining between forty and fifty camp-grounds where 
camp-meetings are held at some time during the year, the at- 
tendance in many cases running up into the thousands. The 
following is a partial list only of the camps: 

Haslet Park Camp, Mich., has eighteen acres of land and thirty 
cottages are built. 

Vicksburg Camp, Mich., occupies a beutiful grove of forty 
acres. The association has a fine auditorium, a hotel, cot- 
tages and lodging-house. 

Onset Ba> Mass., has a temple that will seat 1,500 people. 
There are 500 cottages on the camp proper. Has been or- 
ganized 18 years. At Harwich, Ma^ss., is another camp 
which has existed for twenty -seven years, holding success- 
ful meetings. 

De Leon Springs Camp, Florida, is a winter camp where good 
meetings are held. 



j6 Has Spititualism Any Foundation 

In California, Summerland Camp is regularly organized, and 
many others are held in different places in the State. 

Parkland Camp, Pa., contains 150 acres, with a number of fine 
cottages, hotel, restaurant, pavilion, etc. 

Temple Heights Camp, Maine, has some thirty cottages on the 
ground, 

Sunapee Camp, N, H., is located at Sunapee Lake. 

At Lake Pleasant Camp, Mass., there are about 400 cottages 
built, and more contemplated. 

Clinton Camp, Iowa, owns 19 acres of land and has a pavilion 
seating about 1800 people. A number of cottages are built* 

Vernon Park Camp, Maine, has thirty cottages, good boarding- 
houses, and a fine pavilion for holding meetings in. 

Merimac Island Camp is near St. Paul, Minn,, and has a good 
attendance. 

Delphos Camp, Kansas, besides its present location, owns the 
most beautiful natural oak grove in the State. 

Lily Dale Camp, at Cassadaga, N, Y. has 46 acres of ground, 
over 150 cottages, a grand hotel, stores, a large auditorium, 
and its fine water works and flower-gemmed parks make it 
"a thing of joy forever." 

Queen City Park, Burlington, Vt., has twenty acres of ground. 

Mountain Lake Park, Md., has 800 acres of ground; the park is 
lighted by electricity. 

Lookout Mountain Camp, Tenn., is a fine, large camp, sur- 
rounded by the most beautiful natural scenery. 

Magnolia Camp, Pensacola Bay, Florida, is a new camp con- 
taining some twenty acres of ground. Is most beautifully 
situated. Has a large 50 room hotel, and about twenty 
cottages are to be erected. 

The following are a few of the many camps which it is impos- 
sible to describe here: Cherry Vale Camp, Kan.; Lake Harbor, 
Mich.; Chesterfield, Ind.; Lake George Camp, N. Y.; Maumee 
Valley, Ohio; Devils Lake, Mich.; Catalpa Park, N. Y.; Maple 
Dell, Ohio; Lake Brady, Ohio; Mantua Station, Ohio; Woolley 
Park, Ashley, Ohio; Verona, Maine; Niantic, Conn., Etna, 
Maine; New Bra, Ore.; Cape Cod, Mass.; Echo Grove, Lynn, 
Mass.; Twin City Park, Minn.; Muskegon, Mich.; Lake Helen, 
Florida; Haslett Park, Mich.; Orion, Mich.; Montpelier, Ind.; 
Como Park, Minn.; Liberal, Mo.; Denver, Col. 

Besides the above there are scores of grove meetings being 



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held every year in the different states, which will eventually 
result in the organization of new camps. Spiritualistic temples 
are also being erected all over the United States, where services 
are held regularly. 

Now dear reader, whatever may have been your belief in 
regard to Spiritualism, I think you will be convinced by this 
time that the phenomena of Spiritualism and its phases of 
mediumship have some foundation in the Bible. And now, 
little book, I send you forth, hoping that you may lead some 
out of the bondage of prejudice and superstition into the light 
of spiritual freedom and liberty. 

LKWIS I,. BVARTS. 
137 S. Market St., Shamokin, Pa. 



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